ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,112, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Ontology-based data storage for distributed knowledge bases" was invented by Abdul Quamar (San Jose, Calif.), Fatma Ozcan (San Jose, Calif.), Rana Alotaibi (San Jose, Calif.) and Chuan Lei (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for distributed data placement are provided. Query workload information corresponding to a domain is determined by a data orchestrator, and the query workload information is modeled as a hypergraph, where the hypergraph includes a set of vertices and a set of hyperedges, where each vertex in the...