ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,536, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Adjacency structure for heterogeneous graph data" was invented by Matthias Hauck (Frankfurt, Germany), Hannes Jakschitsch (Mannheim, Germany), Umang Rawat (Heidelberg, Germany) and Romans Kasperovics (Speyer, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include generating, for a heterogeneous graph comprising a plurality of vertex tables and/or edge tables, an adjacency structure including a vertex adjacency structure specifying a plurality of neighboring vertices in the heterogeneous graph and an edge adjacency structure specifying a plurality of neighboring...