ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,713, issued on July 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Domain exploration using sparse graphs" was invented by Urszula Stefania Chajewska (Issaquah, Wash.) and Harsh Shrivastava (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for utilizing a network graph exploration system to facilitate improved exploration of network graphs via inferencing and improved visualization. For example, the network graph exploration system utilizes inferencing to accurately facilitate question and answer explorations, impute missing data in ...