US Patent Issued to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY on Jan. 20 for "Automated methods and systems for retrieving information from scanned documents" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,538, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Automated methods and systems for retrieving information from scanned documents" was invented by Michael Ward (Nashville, Tenn.), Dax Westerman (Nashville, Tenn.), Ruth Reeves (Nashville, Tenn.) and Jesse Wrenn (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated systems and methods for retrieving information from scanned documents are described herein. An example method includes reading a scanned document; and extracting a page image from the scanned document, where the page image includes text and structured data. The method also includes execu...