ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,677, issued on July 28, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Identifying visualizations based on natural language search" was invented by Chloe Elizabeth Feng (Alameda, Calif.) and Barry Glenn Becker (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for allowing users to find relevant existing real-time data visualizations based on natural language rendering of configuration settings. Specifically, methods involve obtaining a natural language query related to performance of at least one enterprise service and selecting one or more real-time data visualizations from a plurality of existing real-time data...