ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,575, issued on March 31, was assigned to AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I LP (Atlanta).

"Identification of feature groups in feature graph databases" was invented by Elijah Hall (Plano, Texas), Edmond J. Abrahamian (Richmond Heights, Mo.), Ana Armenta (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew Campbell (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Jean Luo (Millbrae, Calif.) and Prince Paulraj (Coppell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system may apply a community detection process to a feature graph database to identify a plurality of communities of features, the feature graph database comprising: a plurality of objects, each associated with one of a feat...