ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,537, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Self-attentive key-value extraction" was invented by Eduardo Vellasques (Stuttgart, Canada), Xiang Yu (Berlin), Stefan Klaus Baur (Heidelberg, Germany) and Manuel Zeise (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for automated identification of key-value pairs in documents. A document including readable text is received. The document is processed to determine, from the readable text, a plurality of tokens. Pairs of vectors corresponding to the plurality of tokens are determined, each pair of vectors comprising a query vector a...