US Patent Issued to Sharp on Nov. 3 for "Workflow approval system, approval order setting method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,487, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Workflow approval system, approval order setting method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Kenji Takeda (Sakai City, Japan) and Yuusuke Nakatani (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workflow approval system includes an acquisition unit, a recognition unit, and a route setting unit. The acquisition unit acquires a first image. The recognition unit recognizes one or more approval fields included in the first image on the basis of the arrangement of a combination of characters included in the first image and a delimit...