ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,653, issued on July 7, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Cross-lingual document analysis and translation system" was invented by Xiqing Chang (Clamart, France), Tianjun Hou (Clamart, France) and Zheng Zhang (Clamart, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing a cross-lingual PDF analysis and translation system specifically designed for the energy industry. The cross-lingual PDF analysis and translation system uses various methods (e.g., tag-based or paragraph-based document extraction and mixing) to create a cross-lingual mixed document dataset by modifying HTML files from...