ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,222, issued on July 22, was assigned to Tableau Software Inc. (Seattle).
"Using visual cues to validate object models of database tables" was invented by Britta Claire Nielsen (Seattle) and Jeffrey Jon Weir (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system displays a tree of class icons in a model region. While displaying the tree, the system detects a first portion of an input to place a candidate class icon in the model region. In response, the system (i) identifies a neighboring class icon, in the tree of class icons, that is nearest to the candidate class icon, where the neighboring class icon is circumscribed by a revealer region...