Patents by Inventor Benjamin Townsend

Benjamin Townsend has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11194953
    Abstract: A system comprising: an input receiving an input document comprising text data and graphical data distinguishing hierarchically first and second portion of the text data; a display displaying said input document; a user interface allowing a user to add, in superposition with the displayed input document, boundary markers visually bounding said first and second text portions; and a processor arranged for, using the boundary markers added to the displayed input document, training a layout data analysis model to determine, in a further input document having further text data, if graphical data distinguishes hierarchically first and second portions of the further text data to display automatically boundary markers visually bounding said first and second portions of said further text data; the user interface allowing said user to correct the boundary markers displayed by the layout analysis model and the processor training the layout data analysis model using the corrected boundary markers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: INDICO
    Inventors: Slater Victoroff, Madison May, Michael Langlie, Lily Zhang, Benjamin Townsend, Kevin Fan, Jacob Klingensmith
  • Publication number: 20160063010
    Abstract: The present invention is a system and method for tracking evidence objects and sharing evidence data between agencies. The system and method may also record evidence object locations and the agency or persons responsible for the evidence objects in order to build or maintain a chain of custody record for an evidence object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventor: Benjamin Townsend