ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,702, issued on March 24, was assigned to Falklor DB (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).

"Methods, systems, and media for storing updates to graph databases" was invented by Roi Lipman (Ramat Gan, Israel), Guy Korland (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Avraham Avni (Netivot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms for storing updates to a graph database are provided, the mechanisms including: storing the graph database in at least a first matrix; receiving a first update to the graph database; storing the first update to the graph database in at least a second matrix; and updating the at least a first matrix using a combination of at least the...