ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,079, issued on March 25, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).

"Automatic data model generation" was invented by Jun Ho Kim (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to managing data visualizations. Candidate data fields from a data source may be determined based on a search expression. The candidate data fields may be displayed in the model panel. A working data model may be generated based on a portion of the candidate data fields such that the portion of the candidate data fields may be included in the working data model. Visualizations may be determined based on recommendation models and...