US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Oct. 20 for "Domain-specific shorthand for generation of data visualizations based on context free grammar" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,769, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Domain-specific shorthand for generation of data visualizations based on context free grammar" was invented by Elias Mahfoud (Kenmore, Wash.) and Andriy Kanyuka (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, method and interface for generating data visualizations are provided. The system receives a user input to specify a natural language command directed to a data source. The system also generates a prompt for generating a data visualization based on relevant data fields and data values, rules that characterize the data visualization, and a context ...