US Patent Issued to The Boeing on April 21 for "Method and apparatus for efficiently extracting and representing information from technical diagrams" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,424, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Method and apparatus for efficiently extracting and representing information from technical diagrams" was invented by Amir Afrasiabi (University Place, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for extracting information from a diagram comprises identifying, via first machine learning logic implemented by a computer, features associated with an article illustrated in the diagram. A knowledge graph that defines relationships between the features is generated via second machine learning logic implemented by the computer and based on the...