ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,109, issued on July 28, was assigned to Insurance Services Office Inc. (Jersey City, N.J.).
"Systems and methods for detecting, localizing, and visualizing manipulations of portable document format files" was invented by Matthew D. Frei (Lehi, Utah), Cherie Ekholm (Redmond, Wash.), Shubhi Singh (Ottawa), Zheng Zhong (Seattle) and Palak Jain (Draper, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting and localizing manipulations of portable document format (PDF) files are provided. The system receives one or more PDF files and processes each PDF file using a plurality of check processes. Each check process includes ...