US Patent Issued to Tableau Software on Sept. 9 for "Applying a visual analytics intent language to generate data visualizations" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,865, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).

"Applying a visual analytics intent language to generate data visualizations" was invented by Vidya Raghavan Setlur (Portola Valley, Calif.), Scott Sherman (Seattle) and Matthew Michael Brehmer (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device receives a natural language command directed to a data source. The device applies one or more respective rules to determine whether the natural language command comprises an ambiguous and/or underspecified request. In accordance with a determination that the natural language command comprises an ambiguous and/or u...