ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,499, issued on July 29, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"System to manage document workflows" was invented by Nathaniel Klein (Washington), Huanqi Deng (Annandale, Va.), Kevin Whelan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Matthew LeVan (Arlington, Va.) and Takashi Okamoto (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to a network-based workflow system, employed for receiving workflows, defining one or more data-object types based on the workflows, generating data-objects, assigning a workflow from among the one or more workflows to the data-object, and managing the data-object through various states...