ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,204, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China) and Fudan University (Shanghai).

"Multi-subgraph matching method and apparatus, and device" was invented by Zhen Tian (Shanghai), Weiguo Zheng (Shanghai) and Junhua Zhu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-subgraph matching method and apparatus, and a device are provided. After receiving a plurality of query graphs, the multi-subgraph matching apparatus groups the plurality of query graphs based on a hash value of each query graph, to generate a plurality of groups of query graphs. A plurality of query graphs whose hash values fa...