ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,151, issued on March 3, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Automatic discovery and registration of service applications for files introduced to a user interface" was invented by Adam Campbell (New York), Ashwin Ramaswamy (New York), Juan Tamayo (San Francisco), Lee Avital (New York), Taylor Morgan (New York) and Thomas Hasner (New Brunswick, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises listening for changes to a plurality of configuration files respectively of a plurality of service applications, each configuration file indicating a resource item type and one or more user actions, the listening comprising...