ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,866, issued on June 24, was assigned to Alteryx Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Interactive workflow for data analytics" was invented by Jeff Arnold (Irvine, Calif.), Stephen Edwin Link (Irvine, Calif.) and Cassandra Clark (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data analytics application receives a workflow that includes a sequence of tools. Each tool in the sequence performs a data analytics function. The data analytics application generates an interactive element for a tool in the sequence based on the data analytics function of the tool in the workflow. The interactive element is applied to the tool to update the workflow. The i...