ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,926, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for hydrating graph databases from external data" was invented by Joel Christner (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Aurelian Dumitru (Round Rock, Texas), Robert A. Lincourt (Franklin, Mass.) and George M. Ericson (Shrewsbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving, by a graph proxy, an event from an event generator, and the event includes information about an IO and information about data affected by the IO, comparing, by the graph proxy, the data to a schema, when the data is determined by the graph proxy to m...