ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,060, issued on July 28, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Storage method for graph data and distributed computing method for graph data" was invented by Yi Peng (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present specification relates to the field of data processing, and in particular, to a storage method for graph data and a distributed computing method for graph data. The graph data includes nodes and edges, the nodes include entity nodes and non-entity nodes, and the storage method for the graph data includes: obtaining a first table and a second table based on the graph ...