ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,237, issued on June 17, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Systems and methods for providing a view of geospatial information" was invented by Alexander Mark (New York), Andrew Elder (New York), Brandon Marc-Aurele (Arlington, Va.), David Montague (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Eric Knudson (Boyds, Md.), Eric Jeney (Washington), Jeffrey Bagdis (Arlington, Va.), Daniel O'Malley (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Vincent Tilson (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media may provide a view of geospatial information. A user's selection of a location may be obtained. Characte...