ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,842, issued on June 24, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Subqueries in distributed asynchronous graph queries" was invented by Vasileios Trigonakis (Zurich), Anton Ragot (Switzerland, Switzerland), Yahya Ez-zainabi (Berrechid, Morocco), Tomas Faltin (Prague), Sungpack Hong (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Hassan Chafi (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graph processing engine is provided for executing a graph query comprising a parent query and a subquery nested within the parent query. The subquery is an existential subquery, uses a reference to one or more correlated variables from the p...