ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,672, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Method of distributed graph loading for minimal communication and good balance via lazy materialization and directory indirection using indexed tabular representation" was invented by Petr Koupy (Blansko, Czech Republic), Thomas Manhardt (Foster City, Calif.), Siegfried Depner (Sunnyvale, 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 herein minimally communicate between computers to repartition a graph. In embodiments, each computer receives a partition of edges and ...