ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,541, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Managing ranking of data in visualizations based on multiple dimensions" was invented by Jie Yu (Port Moody, Canada) and Pai Zhang (Burnaby, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program may generate a visualization comprising a set of data from a data model. The set of data comprises a set of measure values categorized according to a plurality of dimensions. The program may receive a request to rank the set of measure values based on a first dimension in the plurality of di...