ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,141, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Ontology-based data visualization" was invented by Yara Rizk (Cambridge, Mass.), Zilu Tang (Cambridge, Mass.), Yasaman Khazaeni (Needham, Mass.) and Vatche Isahagian (Belmont, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data visualization method, system, and computer program product that includes identifying an intent from a natural language query in a conversation with a conversational system, utilizing verbiage from the natural language query and the intent to determine one or more data columns for visualization of results of the natural langu...