ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,450, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Knowledge graph rule induction" was invented by Sanjeeb Dash (Croton on Hudson, N.Y.) and Joao P. Goncalves (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for automated rule set generation for identifying relations in knowledge graph data structures. An input knowledge graph is processed to extract tuples representing relations between entities present in the input knowledge graph. A set of rules is generated based on one or more heuristics applied to tuples, and candidate rule(s) are identified that are cand...