ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,768, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Table extraction from images using language models" was invented by Avinash Rajeshchandra Rai (Bengaluru, India), Srikant Panda (Bengaluru, India) and Kulbhushan Pachauri (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for extracting tables from images using a Language Model. The techniques include detecting, within an image, an area that includes a table. The techniques further include extracting, from the area of the image, tabular data for the table, the extracted tabular data comprising a plurality of content items in the t...