ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,254, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques of information extraction for selection marks" was invented by Amit Agarwal (Kolkata, India), Srikant Panda (Bangalore, India) and Kulbhushan Pachauri (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving a primary document including one or more selection boxes, one or more text lines, and one or more annotations. The method may include determining, a class based on the annotations. The method may include identifying the one or more selection boxes and one or more text lines of the primary document. The met...