ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,701, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Deconstructing graphs using a database management approach" was invented by Ping Liu (Weston, Fla.), Jose Eduardo Corona Espinoza (San Francisco), Priya Santosh Bannur (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Andrii Soviak (San Jose, Calif.), Qianqi Shen (Saratoga, Calif.) and Jianqiang Shen (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosed technologies are capable of deconstructing a graph using database management approaches. Embodiments describe receiving an event trigger associated with a first node of a graph. The event trigger...