From 443d667478fddf1e13f2e06b1da4e1ec3a9fe716 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yury Malkov <yurymalkov@mail.ru>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 19:58:29 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md

Add information about the patent
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 README.md | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 503d75c2..9bcb6775 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -317,7 +317,8 @@ To run test **with** updates (from `build` directory)
 - Visual search engine for 1M amazon products (MXNet + HNSW): [website](https://thomasdelteil.github.io/VisualSearch_MXNet/), [code](https://github.com/ThomasDelteil/VisualSearch_MXNet), demo by [@ThomasDelteil](https://github.com/ThomasDelteil)
 
 ### References
-
+HNSW paper:
+```
 @article{malkov2018efficient,
   title={Efficient and robust approximate nearest neighbor search using hierarchical navigable small world graphs},
   author={Malkov, Yu A and Yashunin, Dmitry A},
@@ -328,3 +329,6 @@ To run test **with** updates (from `build` directory)
   year={2018},
   publisher={IEEE}
 }
+```
+
+The update algorithm supported in this repository is to be published in "Dynamic Updates For HNSW, Hierarchical Navigable Small World Graphs" US Patent 15/929,802 by Apoorv Sharma, Abhishek Tayal and Yury Malkov.