ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,498, issued on June 23, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Aventura, Fla.).
"Object-based process management" was invented by Alex Dhillon (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Alec Schneider (San Francisco), Casey Patton (Wheat Ridge, Colo.), Ka-Wing Courtney Tam (New York), Harshil Mattoo (New York) and Oliver Madine (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may receive a representation of a process, wherein the representation of the process includes: a plurality of states, and one or more transitions among states of the plurality of states. A system may receive a plurality of data objects, wherein each of the data objects is associated...