ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,464, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cloud topology optimization using a graph convolutional network model" was invented by Girish Dhanakshirur (Bangalore, India), Hemant Kumar Sivaswamy (Bangalore, India), Vidya Chandrashekar (Bangalore, India), Rachana Vishwanathula (Hyderabad, India), Deepak Rai (Mangalore, India) and Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla (Visakhapatnam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computer system for network topology optimization. A graph convolutional network (GCN) model is trained using training network topology da...