US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 16 for "System to update the most influential nodes of dynamic graphs" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,100, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"System to update the most influential nodes of dynamic graphs" was invented by Vasileios Kalantzis (White Plains, N.Y.), Georgios Kollias (White Plains, N.Y.), Shashanka Ubaru (Ossining, N.Y.), Lior Horesh (North Salem, N.Y.) and Naoki Abe (Rye, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Identifying influential nodes of a graph is provided. The graph is represented by an adjacency matrix and graph updates are represented using different subgraphs corresponding to the graph. Each update of the graph is calculated by approximating partial spectral f...