ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,748, issued on April 7, was assigned to Neo4j Sweden AB (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Graph database storage engine" was invented by Matthew Parnell (London), Valdemar Roxling (Malmo, Sweden), Peter Wilhelmsson (Lund, Sweden), Rory Steele (Hemel Hempstead, Great Britain) and Mattias Finne (Helsingborg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graph database storage engine is disclosed. In various embodiments, data associated with a node comprising a graph is received via a communication interface. The graph includes a plurality of nodes and a plurality of relationships, and wherein each node in the plurality of nodes has associated therewith ...