Patents by Inventor Targacept, Inc.

Targacept, Inc. 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).

  • CHEMICAL ENTITY SEARCH, FOR A COLLABORATION AND CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20130308840
    Abstract: A method of obtaining chemical or molecular compound information from a document is provided. The method includes applying optical structure recognition to a document and extracting compound structure information from data obtained by applying the optical structure recognition. The method includes applying a text search module to a main body of the document and metadata of the document and extracting one or more chemical names from data obtained by applying the text search module to the main body and to the metadata. The method includes storing, in a database, an identifier, the compound structure information, and the one or more chemical names, wherein at least one method operation is executed through a processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Targacept, Inc.
    Inventor: Targacept, Inc.