US Patent Issued to Tableau Software on Jan. 27 for "Identifying intent in visual analytical conversations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,382, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).

"Identifying intent in visual analytical conversations" was invented by Melanie K. Tory (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Vidya R. Setlur (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method uses natural language processing for visual analysis of a dataset by a computer. The computer displays a data visualization based on a dataset retrieved from a database. The computer computes an initial visualization state that includes elements corresponding to data attributes of the data visualization. The computer receives user input to specify a natural language command ...