ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,784, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Systems and methods for providing a response to a database query" was invented by Adam Jones (London), James Lowenthal (London), Maia Hamin (Washington) and Spencer Weiss (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer apparatus for providing a response to a query comprises one or more processors and non-transitory memory, and computer code stored in the non-transitory memory and operable when executed by the one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to perform: storing, at an aggregation permission service, at least one aggregation polic...