ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,248, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Kinaxis Inc. (Ottawa).
"Systems and methods of network visualization" was invented by Jeremie Boudin (Ottawa), Rishad Khan (Ottawa), Ivy Blackmore (Ottawa) and Andrew Dunbar (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that provide visualization of networks. Data is input into a table structure that represents any hierarchy of entities, relationships and their attributes. The content of the table is processed to extract the entities, relationships and their attributes. These are turned into nodes, edges and a visual representation of their attributes using color gradients, categ...