US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Sept. 9 for "Infoscenting fields for multi-fact data model analysis using shared dimensions" (Washington, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,872, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Infoscenting fields for multi-fact data model analysis using shared dimensions" was invented by Thomas Nhan (Seattle), Gideon Goldin (Shorewood, Wis.), Elaine Weatherfield Sulc (Seattle), Minkyeong Kim (Bellevue, Wash.), Jay Xu (Seattle), Susan Denise Doan (Brier, Wash.), Jordan Yee Ott (Bothell, Wash.), Caleb Marc Rouleau (Seattle), Allan Folting (Seattle) and Ganna Lomova (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device displays, in a user interface, data field icons corresponding to a plurality of data fields. Each of the data fields is ass...