ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,954, issued on April 29, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).

"Generating data analysis dashboard templates for selected data sources" was invented by Ryan Andrew Atallah (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yukiko Ishida Anonuevo (Concord, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method generates data analysis templates. A computing device receives, via a graphical user interface, a natural language input, which includes multiple terms. The terms include one or more data fields and/or data values from a data source. The device designates the natural language input as trigger text for a data analysis template. The trigger text includes t...