ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,515, issued on March 11, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Resource dependency system and graphical user interface" was invented by Adam Borochoff (New York), Joseph Rafidi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Parvathy Menon (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource dependency system displays two dynamically interactive interfaces in a resource dependency user interface, a hierarchical resource repository and a dependency graph user interface. User interactions on each interface can dynamically update either interface. For example, a selection of a particular resource in the dependency graph user interfa...