ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,522, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Audit logging database system and user interface" was invented by Natalie Meurer (Washington), Andrew Lampert (Melbourne, Australia), Dyon Balding (Melbourne, Australia) and Yeong Wei Wee (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for improved auditing of user actions associated with a software application. The system includes functionality to log user actions in a structured, standardized way. The system includes interactive user interfaces for analyzing the logs. The logging is based on a well-defined categorization of availab...