ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,720, issued on March 24, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Interactive geographical map" was invented by Glen Takahashi (New York) and Robert Imig (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems, methods, and devices of the present disclosure may provide, among other features, high-performance, interactive geographical and/or data object map capabilities in which large amounts of geographical, geospatial, and other types of data, geodata, objects, features, and/or metadata are efficiently presented to a user on a map interface. In various embodiments, an interactive geographical map display system may e...