US Patent Issued to Palantir Technologies on Feb. 18 for "Propagated deletion of database records and derived data" (British, American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,121, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Propagated deletion of database records and derived data" was invented by Jeppe Hallgren (Copenhagen, Denmark), Ammaar Reshi (Palo Alto, Calif.) and James Thompson (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of enabling propagated deletion in a distributed database system comprises receiving a request to delete data in a distributed database system; causing a display of a relevant dataset and a switch between applying propagated deletion or not; receiving a first selection of a subset of records from the relevant dataset using one or more filter functio...