ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,196, issued on June 10, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Systems and methods for performing random walks on knowledge graphs" was invented by Mariano Beguerisse-Diaz (London), Till A. Hoffmann (London) and Dimitrios Korkinof (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for performing random walks on knowledge graphs. Knowledge graphs are received and for each knowledge graph there is constructed a multilayer network having unipartite layers and bipartite layers and interlayer couplings that (i) connect nodes of the unipartite layers and the bipartite layers representing th...