ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,594, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SPLUNK Inc. (San Francisco).

"System modification of a search-related statement in a graphical user interface" was invented by Thomas Haggie (Victoria, Canada), Justin Lew (Burnaby, Canada), Jonathan Ng (Vancouver, Canada), Faya Peng (San Francisco), Ioan Popa (Fremont, Calif.), Jacob Sebastian Stark (San Jose, Calif.) and Matthew Kevin Stokes (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system generates a user interface that enables a user to generate a chart from one or more statements of a data processing package. Via one or more user interactions with the user interface, the system ma...