ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,098, issued on March 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to process web-scale graphs" was invented by Tarjinder Singh Munday (Bengaluru, India), Vidhya Thyagarajan (Bengaluru, India), Santebennur Ramakrishnachar Sridhar (Bengaluru, India), Jagan Jeyaraj (Bengaluru, India) and C Ranga Sumiran (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to process web-scale graphs are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises: at least one memory; instructions; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: retrieve a compute based tile (CB...