US Patent Issued to Palantir Technologies on Sept. 16 for "Resolving conflicts between data source updates and user edits to ontology data" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,240, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Resolving conflicts between data source updates and user edits to ontology data" was invented by James Baker (Maidenhead, Great Britain), Xavier Falco (London), Samuel Flavio Barroso Souza (London), Helen Yu (New York), Amr Al Mallah (Tacoma, Wash.), Yixun Xu (Jersey City, N.J.) and Arseny Bogomolov (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for resolving conflicts between data source updates and user edits to an ontology before applying the resulting changes to the ontology and related methods are disclosed. The system is programmed to recei...