ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,827, issued on April 15, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Document image classifying system" was invented by Md. Rafiul Hassan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Muhammad Imtiaz Hossain (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and Machine Learning (ML) systems and apparatus for classification in the case of data instances with imbalanced class distribution, including a Hidden Markov Model for generating a log-likelihood score for each data instance. Implementations of the hybrid system and method detect fraudulent activity and classifies d...