ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,496, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Data collaboration between different entities" was invented by Graham Dennis (Downer, Australia), Timothy Taylor (Wellington, New Zealand), Kimberley Lear (Washington), Jesse Rickard (Kingston, Australia), Dyon Balding (New York), Hunter Pitelka (Arlington, Va.), David Leblanc (Ottawa), Vaughan Shanks (Dickson, Australia), Joel Davies (Canberra, Australia), Steffen Merten (Lower Hutt, New Zealand), Christopher Cook (Wellington, New Zealand), Christopher Male (Wellington, New Zealand) and Marc Barker (New Acton, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techn...