ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,636, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Continuous knowledge graph for links and weight predictions" was invented by Mykhaylo Zayats (Dublin) and Sergiy Zhuk (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are provided for providing a continuous knowledge graph in a computing system by a processor. One or more weighted values of an edge between a pair of entities in a knowledge graph may be predicted based on one or more candidate statements. A confidence score may be generated for the one or more predicted weighted values."

The patent was filed on Nov. 29, 2021, under Appl...