ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,320, issued on July 1, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Low-latency database system" was invented by Mark Elliot (New York), Joseph Ellis (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Rahij Ramsharan (London), Matthew Sills (New York) and Lawrence Manning (Morristown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system can receive one or more edits to be made to a canonical dataset and can temporarily store the one or more edits in a buffer. In response to receipt of a query of the canonical dataset, the computer system can rewrite the query to read from the canonical dataset and the buffer; combine the one or more edits from the buffer w...