ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,435, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Aventura, Fla.).

"Displaying an update to a geographical area" was invented by Peter Wilczynski (San Francisco), Daniel Cervelli (Mountain View, Calif.), John Carrino (Redwood City, Calif.), Quentin Spencer-Harper (London), Peter Hong (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Andrew Moreland (Stanford, Calif.), William Waldrep (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Daniel Paquette (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various example embodiments, a system and method for displaying an update to a geographical area are presented. An indication of an update to geographical area is received. The g...