US Patent Issued to Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for node graph data storage across disparate data sources" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,999, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (East Lansing, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for node graph data storage across disparate data sources" was invented by Matthew Englehart (Holland, Mich.) and Timothy Allen Pletcher (Petoskey, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a method for updating a node graph data structure, comprising storing a node graph data structure comprising a plurality of entity nodes and a plurality of attribute nodes; receiving, from a data source during a plurality of time periods, a plurality of data files comprising data for a fi...