ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,373, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DeepMind Technologies Ltd. (London).

"Persistent message passing for graph neural networks" was invented by Heiko Strathmann (London), Mohammadamin Barekatain (London), Charles Blundell (London) and Petar Velickovic (Cambridge, Great Britain).

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 performing persistent message passing using graph neural networks."

The patent was filed on May 31, 2022, under Application No. 17/829,204.

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