Ben Duffield

Palantir Technologies’ “Gesture management system” patent lists him by his full name, Benjamin Adam Duffield, as an inventor alongside Quentin Spencer-Harper; it claims priority from July 24, 2012, and was granted in December 2017.⁠[1]

With Mark ElliotMark ElliotMark Elliot is a co-founder of the industrial artificial intelligence company Lumaril. He was one of the creators of Palantir Foundry and is a named inventor on several Palantir Technologies data-system patents.Open the full entry and Adam Borochoff he co-invented a Palantir patent on an interactive interface for data analysis and query processing, with priority from December 2014.⁠[2]

His earliest granted U.S. patent, US 9,116,975 of August 2015, covers interactive systems for simultaneously querying multiple data stores.⁠[3]

By November 2025 he had been granted about 30 U.S. patents as a Palantir inventor, many concerning time-series data, such as “Time series database processing system” (from 2019) and “Multi-dimensional time series datasets” (November 2025).⁠[4]

In 2025 he co-founded Lumaril with Mark Elliot; both were creators of Palantir Foundry.⁠[5]

Lumaril runs deep learning models on complex event-based data; Lux CapitalLux CapitalLux Capital is a U.S. venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Peter Hébert, Josh Wolfe and Robert Paull, with offices in New York and Silicon Valley. Focused on emerging science and technology, the firm backs companies in fields including life sciences, artificial intelligence, robotics, manufacturing, aerospace and defense through fund investments and by helping to found companies.Open the full entry invested in the company in 2025.⁠[6]