ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,802, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Column lineage for resource dependency system and graphical user interface" was invented by James Thompson (London), Joseph Rafidi (Washington) and Patrick Szmucer (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource dependency system may track data dependencies and data transformations for individual columns of the data sets over the span of the data pipeline (referred to as a provenance or lineage of a column). Column provenance/lineage can be logged using metadata or graph-like data structures, which the resource dependency system can generate, store, manag...