ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,997, issued on May 13, was assigned to BigObject Private Ltd. (Helios, Singapore).

"Data exploration apparatus, cascading data exploration method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium thereof" was invented by Wenwey Hseush (Taipei, Taiwan), Ya Chu Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Tyng-Rong Roan (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data exploration apparatus is interactively operated by a user conducting a mission including explorations, T1, T2.., TN, to cross-analyze tabular datasets, D1, D2.., DN, respectively. The apparatus starts with n=1 in response to the initiation of the mission to launch an exploration Tn,...