ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,735, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Aventura, Fla.).

"System and method for querying a data repository" was invented by Cenk Sezgin (London), Advaya Krishna (New York), Adhish Ramkumar (Jersey City, N.J.), Arthur Wu (New York), Adam Wiles (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Gregory Slonim (London), Harsh Pandey (New York), Kushal Nigam (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Michal Adamczyk (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for querying data in a data repository. According to a first aspect, this disclosure describes a method of querying a database, comprising: re...