ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,145, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).
"Metadata inheritance for data assets" was invented by Madge Marie Dodson (Seattle), Tyler James-Buker Doyle (Seattle), Ekaterina Grinevskaja (Seattle), Dmitry Yevgenyevich Ryabkov (Seattle) and Qianfan Wang (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to managing data using a network computers. A hierarchy model that includes edges that represent dependency relationships between fields may be generated. In response to a query for determining values of metadata associated with an anchor field performing further actions, including: traversing t...