US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 30 for "Dynamic document classification" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,737, issued on June 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic document classification" was invented by Jun Hong Zhao (ShangDi, China), Dong Rui Li (Beijing), Ang Yi (Beijing), Jing Zhang (Beijing), Hai Cheng Wang (Beijing) and Yang Zhong Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach, a processor performs document layout analysis on a document generating a plurality of textual regions; extracts characteristics from each of the plurality of textual regions and associates the respective characteristics to the respective textual region as metadata; classifies each of the plurality of t...