US Patent Issued to Palantir Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Generation and graphical display of data transform provenance metadata" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,934, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Generation and graphical display of data transform provenance metadata" was invented by Matthew MacLean (New York), Adam Borochoff (New York), Jared Newman (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Joseph Rafidi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining and displaying metadata that represents provenance of columns in a data store comprises receiving query data expressed in a human-readable language and describing one or more transformations of data tables of a distributed database system or columns of the data tables; parsing the query data...