US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 20 for "Federated graph queries across heterogeneous data stores" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,740, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Federated graph queries across heterogeneous data stores" was invented by Anders Tungeland Gjerdrum (Tromso, Norway), Theodoros Gkountouvas (Tromso, Norway) and Jan-Ove Almli Karlberg (Tromso, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solutions are disclosed that enable efficient federated graph queries across multiple isolated data stores. Examples leverage the connectedness of the expected data that spans the data stores by defining the entities and relationships and inferring the intent of the queries. These are used to optimize data searches...