ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,496, issued on July 29, was assigned to Infosys Ltd. (Bangalore, India).

"System and method for executing searches using directed property graphs" was invented by Steven Schilders (Columbus, Ind.) and Kaustubh Kishor Madke (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for executing a search in a dataset is provided. The system includes a storage element that stores a directed property graph derived from the dataset. The directed property graph includes entity vertices corresponding to entities of the dataset, edges corresponding to properties of the entities, and value vertices corresponding to data values of the propertie...