ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,556, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CHINA UNIONPAY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Distributed graph embedding-based federated graph clustering method, apparatus, and readable storage medium" was invented by Tao Tang (Shanghai), Ying Chen (Shanghai), Pengfei Gao (Shanghai), Yue Pang (Shanghai), Jianbin Zheng (Shanghai), Hongbao Liu (Shanghai), Jing Pan (Shanghai) and Yongkai Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a federated graph clustering method based on distributed graph embedding, a device, and a readable storage medium. The method comprises: constructing a first graph on the basis of first party data, and constructi...