ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,972, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Systems and methods for manipulating time-dependent relationships in knowledge graph data structures" was invented by Jan Portisch (Bruchsal, Germany) and Sandra Bracholdt (Dielheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are directed to systems and methods for utilizing relationship data. A computing system may receive a time-dependent query against a knowledge graph data structure. The computing system may access confirmation data from the knowledge graph data structure, the confirmation data describing a first plurality of confirmation points-in-...