US Patent Issued to Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute on March 3 for "Method and apparatus for document analysis through layer separation by machine learning with cross-layer reasoning" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,276, issued on March 3, was assigned to Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Method and apparatus for document analysis through layer separation by machine learning with cross-layer reasoning" was invented by Wai Kai Arvin Tang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Ping Yin Koon (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing electronic documents, comprising: receiving an electronic document; recognizing one or more content components in the electronic document; identifying a content type for each of the recognized content components; creating, by a layer sepa...