US Patent Issued to Tableau Software on Nov. 4 for "Analyzing underspecified natural language utterances in a data visualization user interface" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,107, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).

"Analyzing underspecified natural language utterances in a data visualization user interface" was invented by Vidya Raghavan Setlur (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Alex Djalali (Athens, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device parses a user-specified natural language command to form a first expression. The computing device determines that the first expression is ambiguous or underspecified. The computing device, in accordance with the determination, infers first information using one or more inferencing rules, where at least one of the inferencing rules i...