ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,570, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SMART ENGINES SERVICE LLC (Moscow).

"Unified framework for analysis and recognition of identity documents" was invented by Konstantin Bulatovich Bulatov (Moscow), Pavel Vladimirovich Bezmaternykh (Moscow), Dmitry Petrovich Nikolaev (Moscow) and Vladimir Viktorovich Arlazarov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Unified framework for analysis and recognition of identity documents. In an embodiment, an image is received. A document is located in the image and an attempt is made to identify one or more of a plurality of templates that match the document. When template(s) that match the document ar...