US Patent Issued to SAP on Aug. 25 for "Annotation alignment algorithm analysis for character recognition" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,606, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Annotation alignment algorithm analysis for character recognition" was invented by Christoph Meyer (Berlin) and Xiang Yu (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for evaluating algorithms for aligning weakly-annotated data to recognized characters in a document are provided. In a method for evaluating an algorithm for aligning annotation data to recognized characters, strong annotations and weak-to-strong annotations, which are generated by applying a weak-to-strong annotation alignment algorithm, for a document are received and matched to genera...