ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,482, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Charter-based access controls for managing computer resources" was invented by Alice Yu (San Francisco), Emily Wang (New York) and Yeong Wei Wee (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method can provide charter-based access to resources using an object model. Charters are defined by an administrator to have certain markings, each marking indicating a control (e.g., permission, credential, qualification, constraint, requirement, etc.) that regulates work under the charter. Users are also associated with markings. A user starts a session to acces...