ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,652, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Automated ontology creation" was invented by Jan Portisch (Bruchsal, Germany) and Sandra Bracholdt (Deilheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Class definitions for an ontology of a domain are determined using a materialized instance graph, where the ontology is used for semantic query execution, automated analytical reasoning, or for machine learning. A plurality of instances graphs for a respective plurality of domain instances are received. A materialized instance graph is generated from the plurality of instance graphs. One or more communities represented in t...