ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,362, issued on May 26, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Location of key value pairs" was invented by Ang Yi (Beijing), Jing Zhang (Beijing), Hai Cheng Wang (Beijing), Jun Hong Zhao (Beijing), Hong Lin G Guo (Beijing), Dong Rui Li (Beijing) and Yang Zhong Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer implemented methods, systems, and computer program products include program code executing on a processor(s) extract formerly missing KVP from fields in a document. The program code utilizes an extractor to monitor KVP data in a document. Based on the monitoring, the program code determines that ...