US Patent Issued to INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY on March 24 for "Node selection apparatus and method for maximizing influence using node metadata in network with unknown topology" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,921, issued on March 24, was assigned to INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Node selection apparatus and method for maximizing influence using node metadata in network with unknown topology" was invented by Won Yong Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network node selection apparatus selects a seed node with the greatest influence by expanding the network connection structure by repeating, for a limited number of queries, the process of estimating an edge probability indicating the possibility of the existence of an edge between nodes based on the metadata of a pl...