US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Dec. 23 for "Shortest and cheapest paths in distributed asynchronous graph traversals" (Swiss, Moroccan, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,101, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Shortest and cheapest paths in distributed asynchronous graph traversals" was invented by Vasileios Trigonakis (Zurich), Luigi Fusco (Zurich), Arnaud Delamare (Zurich), Jinsu Lee (San Mateo, Calif.), Ayoub Berdai (Sale, Morocco), Hugo Kapp (Zurich), Ioannis Alagiannis (Zurich) and Vlad Ioan Haprian (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to various approaches for fast and scalable TOP K SHORTEST and CHEAPEST graph queries supporting horizontal aggregations on the group variables of a path in a distributed graph ...