ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,926, issued on March 25, was assigned to Discover Financial Services (Riverwoods, Ill.).

"Computer systems and methods for building and analyzing data graphs" was invented by Kenrick Fernandes (Wheeling, Ill.), Ashkan Golgoon (Glenview, Ill.) and Arjun Ravi Kannan (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing platform may be configured to (i) obtain an input dataset, (ii) construct a graph from the input dataset, (iii) for a given node within the constructed graph, generate a first type of embedding vector using a first embedding technique (e.g., a shallow embedding technique) and a second type of embedding vector ...