ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,706, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Aventura, Fla.).

"Visual analysis of data using sequenced dataset reduction" was invented by Mohammady Mahdy (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Joseph Carter (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for implementing sequenced filter templates to intelligently reduce a dataset to find useful patterns and source data are disclosed. An expert investigative user may configure a filter template comprising a series of filters organized in a sequence desired by the expert user. The filter template can be customized by an end user to reduce a datas...