ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,824, issued on Aug. 12.

"Generating queries using table-based interactive regions" was invented by Marc V. Robichaud (San Francisco), Jesse Miller (San Francisco), Cory Burke (San Bruno, Calif.), Alexander James (Sammamish, Wash.) and Jeffrey Thomas Lloyd (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes causing display of events that correspond to search results of a search query in a table. The table includes rows representing events comprising data items of event attributes, columns forming cells with the row, the columns representing respective event attributes, and interactive regions corresponding to one or more d...