ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,274, issued on March 3, was assigned to RedShred LLC (Baltimore).
"Geographic management of document content" was invented by James Kukla (Ellicott City, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided to manage documents and extract information from documents by defining segments in each document, each of which is assigned a location in a coordinate system defined over a collection of documents. Metadata is attached to each segment to describe the contents, position, and semantic meaning of material within the segment. A segmenting-specific query language can be used to query the segments and respond to requests ...