US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Sept. 8 for "Visual components in a data-agnostic dashboard runtime environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,694, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Visual components in a data-agnostic dashboard runtime environment" was invented by Skip Sauls (San Francisco), Medha Srivastava (San Francisco), Edward Mengel (San Francisco), Sameer Sethi (San Francisco) and James Diefenderfer (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dashboard runtime component includes (1) a visualization component configured to render a visual representation of data items retrieved from a data source and (2) a query execution component associated with at least the visualization component. The query execution component is configured t...