ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,708, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Gui'An New District, China).

"Graph computing method and apparatus" was invented by Yinglong Xia (Shenzhen, China), Chenyi Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Yang Fang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a graph computing method and apparatus that support concurrent graph computing using a plurality of algorithms. A plurality of subgraphs of a graph are loaded into a plurality of computing units, and the plurality of computing units executes a plurality of algorithms in parallel, so that the same graph can be shared ...