ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,159, issued on June 30, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Query optimizations for asynchronous distributed queries on graphs with schema" was invented by Vasileios Trigonakis (Zurich), Jinsu Lee (San Mateo, Calif.), Arnaud Delamare (Zurich), Naufal Serraj (Casablanca, Morocco) and Sungpack Hong (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Query optimization techniques are provided for graphs with schema that can significantly reduce remote communication (i.e., networking) for distributed graph queries, with a focus on distributed asynchronous traversals. The optimization techniques include (i)...