ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,647, issued on July 1, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Method and apparatus for providing secure debug information" was invented by Tony Abboud (New York), Spencer Lake (New York), Bradley Moylan (Torrance, Calif.), Andrew Bradshaw (New York) and Maximilian Najork (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus provides debug information and employs a central debug service in a management environment that issues, to a client debug agent in a client environment, a cryptographically secure signed request for access to debug information that is generated by code executing in the client environm...