ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,974, issued on May 20, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Controlling access to electronic data assets" was invented by Nicolas Prettejohn (Bath, Great Britain), Basil Jennings (London), Mihai Condur (London), Renee Leatherman (Amherst, Mass.), Louis Mosley (London), Simon Slowik (London) and Craig Massie (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system is disclosed that provides purpose-based access to electronic data assets. For example, the computer system may perform operations including: receiving, from a first user, a request to access data assets associated with a purpose object; in response to recei...