US Patent Issued to Tableau Software on Feb. 4 for "Optimizing natural language analytical conversations using platform-specific input and output interface functionality" (California, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,000, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).

"Optimizing natural language analytical conversations using platform-specific input and output interface functionality" was invented by Vidya Raghavan Setlur (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Melanie K. Tory (Portland, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method uses natural language processing for visual analysis of a dataset. The method includes receiving a first natural language (NL) input directed to a data source, from a first client. The method also includes parsing the first NL input into tokens based on a grammar and the data source. The method also includes g...