ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,178, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Methods, apparatuses, and systems for managing graph metadata in distributed graph database" was invented by Xiaohua Yuan (Hangzhou, China) and Meng Zhou (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Storage service version configuration data is obtained at a time when a data storage node cluster starts a data storage service based on a debugging mode. Based on the storage service version configuration data and data storage node cluster topology information, graph metadata of the distributed graph database is created at a t...