ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,246, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Knowledge graph analytics kernels in high performance computing" was invented by Ramakrishnan Kannan (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Piyush K. Sao (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Hao Lu (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Drahomira Herrmannova (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Vijay Thakkar (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Robert M. Patton (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Richard W. Vuduc (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and Thomas E. Potok (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data mining large-scale corpora of scholarly publications, such as the full biomedical literature, which may consist of tens of millions of papers spanning decade...