US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 30 for "Techniques for building or querying graph model of data stored in a common data format" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,156, issued on June 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Techniques for building or querying graph model of data stored in a common data format" was invented by Juan Andres Colmenares Diaz (Santa Clara, Calif.), Santosh Balasubramanian (Seattle), Joshua Shinavier (San Jose, Calif.) and Yuanyuan Tian (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are examples for creating a graph model for data obtained from multiple data sources and stored in a common data format. A selection of columns of data stored in the common data format that are to be associated with one another in the graph mod...