US Patent Issued to Oracle International on March 17 for "Transactionally consistent HNSW index" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,131, issued on March 17, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Transactionally consistent HNSW index" was invented by Aurosish Mishra (Foster City, Calif.), Sukhada Shashank Pendse (Foster City, Calif.), Agnivo Saha (Belmont, Calif.), Rohan Aggarwal (Menlo Park, Calif.), Xianqi Wang (Foster City, Calif.), Shasank Kisan Chavan (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Tirthankar Lahiri (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing a transactionally-consistent Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) index are described. In one technique, a HNSW index for a plurality of vectors is stored. ...