ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,946, issued on March 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Heterogeneous tree graph neural network for label prediction" was invented by Qinlong Luo (Alpharetta, Ga.), Mingyu Guan (Atlanta), Jack Wilson Stokes III (North Bend, Wash.), Purvanshi Mehta (Bellevue, Wash.), Elnaz Nouri (Seattle) and Fuchen Liu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making predictions pertaining to entities represented within a heterogeneous graph includes: identifying, for each node in the heterogeneous graph structure, a set of node-target paths that connect the node to a target node; assigning, t...