ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,290, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (RedwoodShores, Calif.).

"Estimating graph size and memory consumption of distributed graph for efficient resource management" was invented by Jonas Schweizer (Schlieren, Switzerland), Arnaud Delamare (Zurich), Jinsu Lee (San Mateo, Calif.), Sungpack Hong (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hassan Chafi (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Vasileios Trigonakis (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimator is provided that can be used to get an estimate of final graph size and peak memory usage of the graph during loading, based on sampling of the graph data and using machine learning (ML) ...