ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,914, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Interactive data analysis and scheduling" was invented by Ankit Shankar (San Francisco), Casey Patton (London), Christopher Wynnyk (Washington) and Kayo Teramoto (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data analysis system is disclosed that receives data from a master data system to enable useful and efficient rescheduling of items, taking into account effects of various rescheduling options on various metrics related to the items and/or the scheduling. The data analysis system includes sophisticated data analysis and interactive graphical user interfa...