ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,721, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Method and system for extracting information from documents with varying formats" was invented by Jing Wu (Houston), Babu Sai Sampath Reddy Vinta (Houston) and Arvind Sharma (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the disclosure provide a method for extracting attributes from documents with varying formats, layouts and complexities. The method displays a user interface (UI) that enables a user to obtain an unstructured document from a knowledge base. The method converts the unstructured document into a text document using a te...