ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,293, issued on June 9, was assigned to INTUIT INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Graph based technique for automatically identifying a transactions table within a document" was invented by Itay Margolin (Petah Tikva, Israel), Ido Joseph Farhi (Azor, Israel), Eilon Shitrit (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Aleksandr Kim (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically identifying a transactions table in a document includes obtaining a document object model of the document. The document object model includes a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, with each of the nodes corresponding to a respective element of the doc...