ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,300, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Automatic scaling for targeted sweep" was invented by Jeremy Kong (London) and Mohammed Daudali (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for scaling parallelism in sweeping stale data associated with multi-version data management is disclosed. The system is programmed to manage a targeted sweep of stale data stored on distributed storage associated with a set of computing nodes, where the stale data includes metadata for database transactions. The system is programmed to dynamically determine, on a computing node, how many threads to simultaneously p...