ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,982, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).

"Data visualization user interface with summary popup that includes interactive objects" was invented by Ginger Gloystein (Seattle), Sean Boon (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Bora Beran (Santa Fe, N.M.), Justin Talbot (Seattle) and Andrew Beers (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method displays a first data visualization according to user association of data fields with displayed data visualization properties. The data visualization includes visual data marks corresponding to data values for data fields in a dataset. A user selects a subset of the visual data marks. ...