US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 5 for "Reading order detection in a document" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,828, issued on May 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Reading order detection in a document" was invented by Lei Cui (Beijing), Yiheng Xu (Beijing), Yang Xu (Harbin, China), Furu Wei (Beijing) and Zilong Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a solution for reading order detection in a document. In the solution, a computer-implemented method includes: determining a text sequence and layout information presented in a document, the text sequence comprising a plurality of text elements, the layout information indicating a spa...