ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,283, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Parallelization of distributed graph queries" was invented by Jan-Ove Almli Karlberg (Troms og Finnmark, Norway), Anders Tungeland Gjerdrum (Troms, Norway) and Marius Indreberg (Troms og Finnmark, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is disclosed for programmatically parallelizing distributed graph queries of a graph metaphor of distributed data sources through various applications or platforms. Query candidates corresponding to distributed data sources are determined by applying a graph query to a graph metaphor of the distribut...