US Patent Issued to Astrata on July 28 for "Metadata processing" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,232, issued on July 28, was assigned to Astrata Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Metadata processing" was invented by Melissa Weller (Pittsburgh), Paige Haring (Pittsburgh), Eugene Tseytlin (Pittsburgh) and Christopher Garcia Cordova (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing metadata. One of the methods includes accessing a document a) that has, in metadata that can be used to perform natural language processing, a first set of values for a first subset of metadata types from a plurality of metadata types and b) for which a second set o...