ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,781, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"System and method for efficiently determining and displaying optimal packages of data items" was invented by Xiangnong Wang (New York), Yifei Huang (New York), Michael Yang (New York), Francis Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Andy Chen (New York), Andre Frederico Cavalheiro Menck (New York), Christopher Yu (Culver City, Calif.), Grace Garde (South Orange, N.J.), Mark Cinali (New York), James Winchester (New York), Peter Wang (Seattle) and Nitish Kulkarni (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for aggregating data from disparate...