US Patent Issued to Palantir Technologies on March 25 for "Supervisory control and data acquisition" (New York, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,861, issued on March 25, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Supervisory control and data acquisition" was invented by Nomi Becker (Smithtown, N.Y.) and Isaac Smitley (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to computer system security. A machine accesses a set of records corresponding to a set of users having access to a computer system. The machine stores, for each user in the set of users, a baseline profile representing baseline activity of the user with respect to a set of data sources of the computer system. The machine monitors activity of the set of users with ...