US Patent Issued to SAP on June 23 for "Weak-to-strong annotation alignment for tabular data" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,805, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Weak-to-strong annotation alignment for tabular data" was invented by Christoph Meyer (Berlin) and Annie Lim (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for aligning weakly-annotated tabular data to recognized characters in a document are provided. Data table annotations are grouped by column and value to produce a plurality of annotation groups. Character recognition tokens are received, and a search algorithm is performed to align the annotation groups to the tokens in a stepwise manner. A base column is designated, after which the search algorithm...