ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,284, issued on April 7, was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association (Minneapolis).

"Image reading systems, methods and storage medium for performing entity extraction, grouping and validation" was invented by Soumitri Naga Kolavennu (Plymouth, Minn.), Raj M. Bharadwaj (Plymouth, Minn.), Priyanka Singhal (Atlanta), Varshini Sriram (Minneapolis) and Lavanya Basavaraju (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Entity extraction is performed using a voting ensemble approach to enhance the accuracy and effectiveness of entity extraction processes. Voting ensemble weights are stored. In turn, a prediction value for a first entity is d...