ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,928, issued on May 6, was assigned to TigerGraph Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Graph query management using bloom filters and edge delta indexes" was invented by Songting Chen (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and software described herein manage graph query response using bloom filters and edge indexes. In one implementation, a graph management system may generate indexes and delta indexes for edges in a graph. Once generated, the graph management system may receive a query to the graph and respond to the query using the index and at least one delta index of the delta indexes."

The patent was ...