ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,011, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Connection nature between nodes in graph structure" was invented by Leo Moreno Betthauser (Kirkland, Wash.), Maurice Diesendruck (Bellevue, Wash.) and Harsh Shrivastava (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The interpretation of a graph data structure represented on a computing system in which the connection between a pair of nodes in the graph may be interpreted by which intermediary entity (node or edge) on a path (e.g., a shortest path) between the node pair is most dominant. That is, if the intermediary entity were not present, a...