US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for supporting sketch-based querying for data trend analysis" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,769, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for supporting sketch-based querying for data trend analysis" was invented by Vidya Raghavan Setlur (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Dennis Nathan Bromley (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device receives, via a user interface, a drawing input directed to a dataset of time series data. The computing device converts the drawing input into a set of search terms and executes a query against a search index for the dataset using the set of search terms to retrieve a plurality of labeled trend events. Each of the labeled trend events...