ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,733, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Query-based time-series data display and processing system" was invented by Benjamin Duffield (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods are described herein for an improved spreadsheet application that allows a user to generate, manipulate, and replicate data visualizations (e.g., sparklines, graphs, charts, etc.) using functions without importing data into cells of the application. For example, data is stored in one or more remote or local data stores accessible to the improved spreadsheet application. A user enters a function in...