ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,390, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Semantic-based data binning" was invented by Vidya Raghavan Setlur (Portola Valley, Calif.), Michael Correll (Seattle) and Sarah E. Battersby (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system determines whether a selected data field matches a first bin concept of a plurality of bin concepts in a semantic bin lookup table. Each bin concept is associated with one or more bin options and each bin option includes a plurality of bin intervals. When the data field matches the first respective bin concept, the computer system selects, from the semantic bin loo...