ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,672, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Identifying document generators by color footprints" was invented by Ran Bittmann (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for identifying document generators by color footprints. An example method includes receiving a request to classify a first document. A document footprint is generated for the first document that includes a set of most frequently occurring color values in the first document. A classification for the first document is determined as either generated-by-the-...