ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,753, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Aventura, Fla.).

"Streamlining processing and transport of artifacts in air-gapped networks" was invented by Ashray Jain (Seattle), Bradley Moylan (Torrance, Calif.), Callum Rogers (London) and Charissa Sonder Plattner (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing systems methods, and non-transitory storage media are provided for obtaining images, extracting layers from each of the images, extracting segments from each of the layers, generating a compressed version of the segments by storing a single copy of each segment and metadata to reconstruct the layers fr...