ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,085, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Padding sensitive batch construction for text recognition" was invented by Liyu Gong (Lexington, Ky.), Yuying Wang (Redmond, Wash.), Michael Avendi (Irvine, Calif.), Tao Sheng (Bellevue, Wash.) and Jun Qian (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for constructing padding-sensitive batches for text recognition are provided. In one technique, a first bounding box from a list of bounding boxes is added or included into a batch of zero or more bounding boxes. Each bounding box in the list of bounding boxes surrounds different dete...