ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,416, issued on April 21, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Applied artificial intelligence technology for automatically generating narratives from visualization data" was invented by Daniel Joseph Platt (Chicago), Mauro Eduardo Ignacio Mujica-Parodi III (Chicago), Lawrence A. Birnbaum (Evanston, Ill.), Alexander Rudolf Sippel (Chicago), Jonathan Alden Drake (Chicago) and Peter Horace Sherman (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are example embodiments that describe how a narrative generation techniques can be used in connection with data visualization tools to automatically generate narratives tha...