ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,377, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Storing graph data in a key-value store" was invented by Alexander Merschel (Stuttgart, Germany), Nehal Dudani (Hamburg, Germany), Dennis Butterstein (Stuttgart, Germany), Martin Anton Oberhofer (Sindelfingen, Germany), Thomas Schwarz (Stuttgart, Germany) and Tobias Kevin Franzel (Tuebingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for storing a graph is provided. The present invention may include providing a key-value store. The present invention may include storing a graph in the key-v...