ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,380, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Intelligent document processing assistant" was invented by Merlyn Evans (Arlington, Va.) and Nicole Blohm (Mount Pleasant, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for an intelligent document processing assistant are provided. In one technique, an electronic document is received and content thereof is automatically analyzed to determine a document type of the electronic document. Based on the document type, text data is extracted from the electronic document. The text data comprises multiple field values that correspond to multiple field names that are associated w...