ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,467, issued on July 29, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Query semantics for multi-fact data model analysis using shared dimensions" was invented by Thomas Nhan (Seattle), Tyler Martin (Seattle), Franz Gustave Amador (Seattle), Marian Simo Boitel (Seattle), Jeffrey Mark Booth Jr. (Seattle), Russell Steven Paul-Jones (Duvall, Wash.) and Jinbo Feng (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device receives user input specifying a first dimension data field and a second dimension data field. The device constructs a dimension subquery according to characteristics of the first dimension data field, the sec...