ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,864, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Approximate maximal clique enumeration for dynamic graphs" was invented by Joshua A. Binkley (Richardson, Texas), Thomas B. Swank (Plano, Texas) and Christine R. Nezda (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for determining an approximation of a set of largest maximal cliques containing each node, entities represented by nodes and pairwise relation represented by edges. The method can include receiving dynamic graph data indicating the nodes and the edges of a dynamic graph, estimating, for one or more ...