ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,729, issued on April 7, was assigned to Zoho Corporation Private Limited (Kanchipuram District, India).
"Value-directed parsing for data extraction" was invented by Jayaraj Poroor (Thrissur, India), Harish Chandrasekar Reddy (Chennai, India), Raghul Selvaraj (Coimbatore, India) and Bharath Sivakumar (Guduvanchery, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are methods and systems for parsing unstructured or semi-structured text to extract named entities, data types defined to include semantic fields. Fields are constrained to sets of potential field values. These sets can overlap, leading to ambiguous parses. For example, the tex...