US Patent Issued to Tableau Software on Sept. 9 for "Utilizing appropriate measure aggregation for generating data visualizations of multi-fact datasets" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,861, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Tableau Software Inc. (Seattle).

"Utilizing appropriate measure aggregation for generating data visualizations of multi-fact datasets" was invented by Christian Eubank (Seattle) and Justin Talbot (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer receives user selection of data fields from a data source and user placement of the data fields into a shelf region of a user interface. The computer obtains a data model encoding the data source as a tree of related logical tables. Each logical table includes logical fields, each of which corresponds to either a dimension or a measure. The computer g...