Faleh Alshameri Granted Patent

On Tuesday, March 27, Faleh Jassem Alshameri, professor of computer and information systems, was granted a patent for “Automated Generation of Metadata for Mining Image and Text Data” from the U.S. Patent Trademark Office.

The patent, first filed in March 2008, is a tangible, computer-readable medium that is encoded with instructions for automatically generating metadata. It is an automated metadata system using digital objects to reduce the volume of the dataset and allowing users to perform a search easier and quicker.