ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,495, issued on July 7, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Natural language to customize data visualization" was invented by Sameer D. Merchant (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zana Vosough (San Francisco) and Rajesh Bhagwat (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and device for generating data visualizations are disclosed. The method includes (i) obtaining a natural language query, (ii) determining an intent for the natural language query, (iii) generating one or more data requests to one or more selected data sources, the one or more data requests being based at least in part on the intent...