ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,866, issued on March 24, was assigned to INTUIT INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automated entry of extracted data and verification of accuracy of entered data through a graphical user interface" was invented by Lana Grace Pflaum (Oceanside, Calif.), Kenichi Mori (Carlsbad, Calif.), Michael A. Artamonov (San Diego) and Craig Moll (Eagan, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically populating a document being prepared via a software application based on extracted data from one or more of a plurality of different source documents may include displaying a graphical user interface associated with the software applicati...