US Patent Issued to Tableau Software on Sept. 23 for "Data processing for visualizing hierarchical data" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,333, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).

"Data processing for visualizing hierarchical data" was invented by Andrew C Beers (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to managing visualizations of data. A provided data model may include a tree specification that declares parent-child relationships between objects in the data model. In response to a query associated with objects in the data model: employing the parent-child relationships to determine a tree that includes parent objects and child objects from the objects based on the parent-child relationships; determining a root o...