US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 29 for "Determining a collection of data visualizations" (Illinois, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,458, issued on July 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Determining a collection of data visualizations" was invented by T. Alan Keahey (Naperville, Ill.), Daniel J. Rope (Reston, Va.) and Graham J. Wills (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of transition characteristics can be identified. The set of transition characteristics can include continuities and discontinuities between data fields and data visualization channels among a plurality of data visualizations. A transition tuple for each of a plurality of pairs of the data visualizations can be determined and mapped to a mat...