ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,879, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generating reports from scanned images" was invented by Ozan Oktay (London), Javier Alvarez-Valle (Cambridge, Great Britain), Melanie Bernhardt (Cambridge, Great Britain), Daniel Coelho De Castro (Cambridge, Great Britain), Shruthi Jaisimha Bannur (Cambridge, Great Britain), Anton Schwaighofer (Cambridge, Great Britain), Aditya Nori (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Hoifung Poon (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method comprising: receiving a report on a condition of a human or animal subject, composed by a u...