ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,316, issued on June 24, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for building a knowledge graph in limited knowledge domains" was invented by Gautam Singaraju (Dublin, Calif.) and Prithviraj Venkata Ammanabrolu (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques disclosed herein relate generally to constructing a customized knowledge graph. In one embodiment, entities and relations among entities are extracted from a user dataset based on certain rules to generate a seed graph. Large-scale knowledge graphs are then traversed using a finite state machine to identify candidate entities and/or rela...