ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,068, issued on July 15, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Distributed multi-hop neighborhood extraction for graph machine-learning via push-lazy-push-traversal" was invented by Vasileios Trigonakis (Zurich), Lukas Kapp-Schwoerer (Redwood City, Calif.), Jonas Schweizer (Schlieren, Switzerland), Arnaud Delamare (Zurich), Damien Hilloulin (Zurich), Vlad Ioan Haprian (Zurich) and Sungpack Hong (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sampling procedure is performed for paths on a multi-hop distributed graph that includes vertices partitioned on a plurality of machines; a sampled path include...