ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,467, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Methods and apparatuses for inserting data into graph database" was invented by Mengyu Li (Hangzhou, China) and Zewei Chen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To insert data into a graph database, an insert statement for a target graph database is received, where the insert statement includes at least an insert keyword and several element definition lists corresponding to several graphic elements including nodes and/or edges. The several element definition lists describe respective element identifiers of the sever...