ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,092, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Aventura, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for state machine management" was invented by Kevin Richards (San Francisco), Arseny Bogomolov (Arlington, Va.), Grigory Bonik (Palo Alto, Calif.), Victor Hsu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Alexander Visbal (San Francisco), John Carrino (Redwood City, Calif.), Cooper Bills (Fremont, Calif.), Diran Li (Palo Alto, Calif.), William Rhyne (Arlington, Va.), Timothy O'Brien (Washington) and Matthew Bango (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A case management system is configured to provide one or more case generation and management ...