ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,487, issued on March 4, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Efficient compilation of bounded recursive graph queries on top of SQL based relational engine" was invented by Vlad Ioan Haprian (Zurich), Lei Sheng (Foster City, Calif.), Laurent Daynes (Saint-Ismier, France), Zhen Hua Liu (San Mateo, Calif.), Hugo Kapp (Zurich), Marco Arnaboldi (Zurich), Andrew Witkowski (Foster City, 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 support graph pattern matching queries inside a relational database management system (RDBMS) that supp...