ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,911, issued on March 25.

"Personal information management system having graph-based management and storage architecture" was invented by Justin Garrett Radcliffe (College Station, Texas) and Erik Michael Howard (Seguin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Personal information management (PIM) systems and methods in which a plurality of datastores, including a graph datastore and a non-graph datastore are maintained. The graph datastore stores nodes representing each item of personal information data (PID) and edges representing relationships between the PID items. A user interface is generated to accept user input selecting a first...