ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,540, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Graph data compression method and apparatus" was invented by Min-Soo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Seyeon Oh (Daegu, South Korea), Donghyoung Han (Daejeon, South Korea), Inju Na (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sungwoo Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a graph data compression method and apparatus. A computing device divides graph data including information about a source vertex and a destination vertex of an edge into a plurality of pieces, generates a plurality of compressed data obtained ...