US Patent Issued to Fujitsu on Oct. 7 for "Identification of influential nodes in graph datasets using combinatorial optimization formulations" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,003, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Identification of influential nodes in graph datasets using combinatorial optimization formulations" was invented by Xiaoyuan Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Ankith Mohan (Blacksburg, Va.) and Sarvagya Upadhyay (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include obtaining a graph dataset that represents a social network and includes a plurality of nodes. The method may include partitioning the graph dataset into a first node cluster and a second node cluster in which the first node cluster and the second node cluster each include one or more nodes from t...