US Patent Issued to Tableau Software on July 8 for "Detecting anomalies in visualizations" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,442, issued on July 8, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).

"Detecting anomalies in visualizations" was invented by Andrew C. Beers (Seattle), Eric Roy Brochu (Vancouver, Canada), Rachel Stern Kalmar (Cambridge, Mass.), Hon To Ming (Vancouver, Canada), David John Mosimann (New Westminster, Canada), Leiling Tao (Burnaby, Canada) and Lu Yu (New Westminster, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to managing visualizations of data. Visualizations to monitor may be determined based on metrics associated with the monitored visualizations. Mark values may be sampled from each monitored visualization such t...