ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,653, issued on March 24, was assigned to Unisys Corp. (Blue Bell, Pa.).

"Parsing implicit tables" was invented by Mark Rosno (Eagan, Minn.), Patrick Deziel (Eagan, Minn.), Christopher Korzenowski (Eagan, Minn.), Rebecca Bilbro (Eagan, Minn.), Kelsey L Bruso (Eagan, Minn.) and Robert Malek (Eagan, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of parsing implicit tables within a document includes parsing, by a processor, a document to determine a pattern for a set of text that sets apart the information contained therein from the rest of the text; determining, by the processor, from the pattern of spacing, a first descriptive phrase a...