ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,815, issued on May 20, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Resource grouping for resource dependency system and graphical user interface" was invented by James Thompson (London), Joseph Rafidi (Washington) and Patrick Szmucer (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource dependency system and its associated user interfaces, used for tracking data dependencies and data transformations between resources, may display visual node graphs with resources as nodes and the data dependencies and data transformations associated with the columns as edges between the nodes. The nodes representing the resources may be display...