Article: Patent No. 7,561,737 Issued on July 14, Assigned to Microsoft for Mathematical Expression Recognition Mechanism (U.S., Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 18 -- Yu Zou, Lei Huang, Mingqing Xu, Jian-Lai Zhou, Yue Li, Dongmei Zhang, Xiaohui Hou, Wenli Zhu, Jian Wang, Hongyun Yang and Xianfang Wang, all from Beijing, and Jiang Wu of San Jose, Calif., have developed a mechanism for mathematical expression recognition. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,561,737 on July 14.

The patent has been assigned to Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Wash.

According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for recognizing and inputting handwritten mathematical expressions into a computer by providing a multi-path framework is described. The framework may include symbol grouping and recognition, ...

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