US Patent Issued to Sage Global Services on May 12 for "Automatic document template inference, generation, and refinement" (British, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,527, issued on May 12, was assigned to Sage Global Services Ltd. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Great Britain).

"Automatic document template inference, generation, and refinement" was invented by Gal Isaac Lellouche (Tel Aviv, Israel), Saed Hussain (London), Ernest Ho Hin Chow (London) and Alexander Millar (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments offer improved functionality for generating and/or refining templates that can be used for automatically extracting information from within an invoice or other document, based on geometric characteristics of the document. An initial template may be automatically generated, and such i...