US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Oct. 14 for "Automatic image conversion" (Massachusetts, California, Washington, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,420, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automatic image conversion" was invented by Michael Sollami (Cambridge, Mass.), Sonke Rohde (San Francisco), Alan Martin Ross (San Francisco), David James Woodward (Bozeman, Mont.), Jessica Lundin (Seattle), Owen Winne Schoppe (Orinda, Calif.), Brian J. Lonsdorf (Soquel, Calif.) and Aashish Jain (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for automatically converting a layout image to a text-based representation. In the disclosed techniques, a server computer system receives a layout image that includes a plurality of portions repr...