ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,251, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Nielsen Consumer LLC (Chicago).

"Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to detect lines on documents" was invented by David Montero (Valladolid, Spain) and Jose Javier Yebes Torres (Valladolid, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that detect lines in a document. An example apparatus includes at least one memory; machine readable instructions; and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to: generate feature embeddings for text segments detected in a docu...