ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,152, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Systems and methods for establishing and enforcing relationships between items" was invented by Jack Fischer (New York), Advaith Anand (Austin, Texas), Andrew Jiang (San Jose, Calif.) and Christopher Dugan (Bronx, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for tracking and enforcing relationships between items. A relationship interface may be provided that conveys the relationship (or link) between items, and through which a user may define the link between two or more items. Identifying a link between two items may establish a set...