ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,697, issued on June 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Pixel mapping for heatmap visualizations" was invented by Justin Wai-Yee De Luna (San Francisco), Jeremy Robert Snyder (Seattle) and Eric Allen Wohlstadter (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques, which may be embodied herein as systems, computing devices, methods, algorithms, software, code, computer readable media, or the like, are described herein for generating heatmap visualizations. A heatmap visualization can be a graphical representation of data where the coordinates of a cell in the visualization can be a key that describ...