ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,824, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan City, China).

"Energy-efficient hardware-software collaborative method and apparatus for graph processing" was invented by Yu Zhang (Wuhan City, China), Jin Zhao (Wuhan City, China), Qiange Shen (Wuhan City, China), Xinyu Jiang (Wuhan City, China), Hui Yu (Wuhan City, China), Hao Qi (Wuhan City, China), Yun Yang (Wuhan City, China), Shijun Li (Wuhan City, China), Xiaofei Liao (Wuhan City, China) and Hai Jin (Wuhan City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to energy-efficient collaborative method and apparatus fo...