ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,255, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen (Shenzhen, China).

"Collective communication optimization method for global high-degree vertices, and application" was invented by Huanqi Cao (Beijing) and Yuanwei Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a graph computation method based on distributed parallel computing, a distributed parallel computing system, and a computer-readable medium. The graph computation method includes the following steps: obtaining the data of the graph to be computed, where the graph consists of multiple vertices and edges. For a ...