ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,526, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Reusing custom concepts in visual analytics workflows" was invented by Vidya Raghavan Setlur (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Andrew Beers (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for reusing custom concepts in visual analytics workflows. The method includes displaying a data visualization for a data source. The method also includes receiving a natural language input directed to the visualization. The method also includes parsing the natural language input to data fields and/or data values. The method also includes executing queries to data source...