US Patent Issued to Ricoh on June 2 for "Intelligent form filling" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,869, issued on June 2, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Intelligent form filling" was invented by Carlota Daniel (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and storage media for implementing an intelligent form filling system are provided. The system generates an association between a first field name and a second field name based on entry of field values by users into a first form document at a first device within a plurality of devices connected to a network and stores the association in a field name dictionary data structure at a server device connected to the network to form a field name associa...