ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,585, issued on July 8, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dual write and dual read access to graph databases" was invented by Xia Zhang (Shanghai), Pengshan Zhang (Shanghai), Kun Wang (Shanghai), Jiaxin Fang (Shanghai), Jun Li (Shanghai), Xin Wang (Shanghai), Yangxing Liu (Shanghai), Yu Zhang (Shanghai), Changle Lian (Suzhou, China), Ying Yue (Shanghai) and Xiaojun Luan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a graph database, including receiving, by a computer system, a query to a particular graph database, the query identifying a plurality of vertices of the particular graph database. The method...