This inventor holds 1 USPTO granted patent and 1 published patent application. Top assignee: Sciome, LLC. Active years: 2026.
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Company Filing History:
Years Active: 2026
Title: Brian Howard and Graph-Inference-Based Text Extraction
Introduction
Brian Howard is an inventor based in Raleigh, North Carolina. His work includes a patent for extracting text from unstructured documents using graph inference and machine learning.
Latest Patents
Howard is associated with 1 patent: “Methods and Systems for Graph-Inference-Based Text Extraction from Unstructured Documents.” The invention describes receiving a document page, identifying each glyph and its position, and using that information to build an adjacency graph. A machine-learning model classifies the graph’s nodes and edges, after which the glyphs are grouped to produce text output.
Career Highlights
Howard is associated with Sciome, LLC. His patent describes a method for organizing glyph-level information and applying machine learning to support text extraction from unstructured documents.
Collaborations
Howard’s listed coworkers include Christopher Norman and Ruchir Shah.
Conclusion
Brian Howard’s patent focuses on combining glyph-position data, graph inference, and machine learning to extract text from unstructured documents.
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