ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,170, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Condensing a document for enhanced analysis and processing" was invented by Dong Rui Li (Beijing), Ye Chen (Beijing), Zai Ming Lao (Beijing), Xue Lan Zhang (Beijing), Xue Xu (Beijing) and Wei U Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for creating a smaller version of an original document. An ontology is defined, and a document type for an original document is determined, based on the ontology. Multiple key-value pairs (KVPs) are extracted from the original document based on the document type. Pa...