ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,146, issued on June 30, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Aventura, Fla.).

"Monitoring and alerting mechanisms" was invented by Aditya Chaturvedi (San Francisco), Austin Czarnecki (New Malden, Great Britain), Alexander Martino (Avon, Colo.), Benjamin Duffield (New York), Gokcan Ozakdag (London) and Natacha Gabbamonte (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing systems methods, and non-transitory storage media are provided for receiving a monitoring request. The monitoring request includes one or more entities or attributes to be monitored, one or more rules to be evaluated with respect to the entities or attrib...