US Patent Issued to Tableau Software on Jan. 13 for "Providing and surfacing metrics for visualizations" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,434, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).

"Providing and surfacing metrics for visualizations" was invented by Andrew C. Beers (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to generating metrics based on visualizations. A dashboard that may be associated with source visualizations display a current value of metrics from source visualization models. A classifier may automatically use characteristics from the source visualizations to determine metrics for the source visualization. The source visualization models may be sample to provide values of the metrics across time, at a sampling ra...