ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,323, issued on May 27, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).

"Data visualization user interface with seamless online and offline user interaction" was invented by Michael Mathews (Issaquah, Wash.) and Ryan Whitney (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implements data visualization offline interaction. A user requests a data visualization, and sends the request to a server. The method receives a data model needed to render the data visualization and a data visualization library. The method stores the data model and data visualization library in memory. The method generates the data visualization based on the data ...