ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,385, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Multi-snapshot HNSW index" was invented by Agnivo Saha (Belmont, Calif.), Rohan Aggarwal (Menlo Park, Calif.), Sukhada Shashank Pendse (Foster City, Calif.), Benita Kathleen Britto (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Marco Arnaboldi (Zurich), Martin Brugnara (Zurich), Ioannis Alagiannis (Zurich), Vlad Ioan Haprian (Zurich), Laurent Phillipe Daynes (Saint-Ismier, France), Aurosish Mishra (Foster City, Calif.) and Shasank Kisan Chavan (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating and leveraging a multi-snapshot HNSW index are p...