ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,160, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Mobile tasks" was invented by Cooper Bills (Mountain View, Calif.), Steven Fackler (Palo Alto, Calif.), Zennard Sun (Mountain View, Calif.), Maja Wichrowska (Alpharetta, Ga.) and David Villarreal (San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Activities related to data analyses are managed in part using task objects representing tasks that need to be performed. In one embodiment, a method comprises: receiving a first request to generate a task object that describes a task; responsive to the first request, generating the task object, the task...