US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 12 for "Hand-drawing shape-based document retrieval" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,910, issued on May 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hand-drawing shape-based document retrieval" was invented by Ran Bi (Beijing), Yingxia Li (Redmond, Wash.), Yuwang Wang (Redmond, Wash.) and Xiaoyi Zhang (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods, apparatuses and computer program products for hand-drawing shape-based document retrieval. An input hand-drawing shape may be obtained. A hand-drawing shape feature of the hand-drawing shape may be extracted through a feature extracting model. At least one target document may be retrieved by using the hand...