ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,686, issued on April 8, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Collaborative spreadsheet data validation and integration" was invented by Timothy Yousaf (New York City, N.Y.), Yichen Xing (Potomac, Md.) and Rhys Brett-Bowen (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a method for integrating collaborative spreadsheet data into one or more network applications is presented. The method may include accessing an application data schema comprising a set of constraints on application data consumed by an application hosted by an application ser...