US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods for exploring quantifiable trends in line charts" (Washington, Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,307, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for exploring quantifiable trends in line charts" was invented by Alexander Elias Bendeck (Boca Raton, Fla.), Dennis Nathan Bromley (Seattle) and Vidya Raghavan Setlur (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device receives a natural language input specifying a first search term and a second search term, directed to a dataset. The device (i) executes, for the first search term, first queries against a search index to retrieve a first set of labeled trend events; and (ii) executes for the second search term, second ...