US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Nov. 3 for "Pre-processing a table in a document for natural language processing" (North Carolina, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,486, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Pre-processing a table in a document for natural language processing" was invented by Scott Carrier (New Hill, N.C.), Ritwik Ray (Apex, N.C.), Jonathan Chapin Rand (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jothilakshmi Sirangimoorthy (Canton, Mich.), Hui Wang (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Robert Fredenburg (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for pre-processing a table in a document for natural language processing (NLP). A graphical user interface (GUI) provides a representation of table items in a t...