US Patent Issued to U.S. Bank National Association on Feb. 24 for "Training-free framework for zero-shot check field detection" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,737, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association.

"Training-free framework for zero-shot check field detection" was invented by Sourav Halder (Chicago), Jinjun Tong (Corona, Calif.) and Xinyu Wu (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Input data including a facsimile representation of a paper document is input at first branch of a zero-shot configuration (Zcon), which includes a first Vision-Language Model (VLM) adapted to identify a first set of fields in the input data using a visualized first set of bounding boxes (BB). A first agentic AI in the first branch localizes a field as a desired type of ...