US Patent Issued to Tableau Software on July 29 for "Data visualization analytical canvas with functionally independent visual containers" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,453, issued on July 29, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).

"Data visualization analytical canvas with functionally independent visual containers" was invented by Allison Anne Whilden (Redmond, Wash.), Dirk Karis (Seattle), Vidya Raghavan Setlur (Portola Valley, Calif.), Rodion Degtyar (Sammamish, Wash.), Jonathan D. Que (Seattle) and Filippos Lymperopoulos (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of interrelated block objects are obtained. Each block object having a respective specification that includes (i) a layout type; (ii) a mark type; (iii) one or more visual encodings; and (iv) one or more data fields o...