ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,272, issued on May 26, was assigned to WISTRON CORP. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Hierarchical file parsing system and method" was invented by Cheng Chan Cheng (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hierarchical file parsing method includes: obtaining a reference string; obtaining a plurality of first strings from a plurality of files, wherein each file includes a table with a plurality of text fields and a plurality of numerical fields, and each first string is associated with the plurality of text fields; calculating a first similarity between the reference string and each first string, filtering out a plurality of...