US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 25 for "Generating and presenting a searchable graph based on a graph query" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,673, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generating and presenting a searchable graph based on a graph query" was invented by Paul Pangilinan Del Villar (Bothell, Wash.), Mohamed Abdelrhman Mostafa Ali Elfeki (Renton, Wash.), Pramod Kumar Sharma (Seattle) and Nilgoon Zarei (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to selectively analyzing digital content items from a social networking system to generate a searchable graph object that facilitates visualization of correlations between entities of interest (e.g., brands, products, services, compani...