US Patent Issued to Oracle International on July 15 for "Efficient, in-memory, relational representation for heterogeneous graphs" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,065, issued on July 15, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Efficient, in-memory, relational representation for heterogeneous graphs" was invented by Damien Hilloulin (Zurich), Davide Bartolini (Obersiggenthal, Switzerland), Oskar Van Rest (Mountain View, Calif.), Alexander Weld (Mountain View, Calif.), Sungpack Hong (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Hassan Chafi (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided herein for efficient representation of heterogeneous graphs in memory. In an embodiment, vertices and edges of the graph are segregated by type. Each property of a type of verte...