US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 4 for "Semantic search based on a graph database" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,477, issued on March 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Semantic search based on a graph database" was invented by Teng Sun (Beijing), Tong Liu (Xi'an, China), Si Tong Zhao (Xi'an, China), XueLiang Zhao (Shanghai), Frank Feng (Beijing), Yu Zui Wy You (Beijing) and Zhong Fang Yuan (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to perform a semantic search based on a graph database, sets of nodes are selected from a plurality of nodes in a graph database. A set of nodes semantically matches a keyword in a natural language query. At least one target node is identified in the sets of nodes. A...