ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,312, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Determining relationships between nodes within connected graphs" was invented by Yulin Bao (Hefei, China), Justin Bryce Betteridge (Boise, Idaho), Rongan Chen (Hefei, China), Zian Fang (Hangzhou, China), Libin He (Hefei, China), Gang Liu (Hefei, China), Yike Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yuan Hung Lo (Mountain View, Calif.), Jiyue Ma (Hangzhou, China), Arvin Damien Seifipour (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Hao Zhang (Hefei, China) and Huilian Zhao (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes generating, from a relevancy graph,...