US Patent Issued to NEC on Nov. 11 for "Answering complex queries in knowledge graphs with bidirectional sequence encoders usable to support decision making and having medical use applications" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,705, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Answering complex queries in knowledge graphs with bidirectional sequence encoders usable to support decision making and having medical use applications" was invented by Bhushan Kotnis (Heidelberg, Germany), Mathias Niepert (Heidelberg, Germany) and Carolin Lawrence (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding a query graph having m root nodes and n leaf nodes includes receiving mxn path queries representing the query graph, where each path query starts with a root node and ends with a leaf node, and where the query graph includes one or more miss...