ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,845, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Universal state representations of visualizations for different types of data models" was invented by Jie Yu (Port Moody, Canada), Philip Kin Sung Lau (Richmond, Canada), Yue Qian Huang (Burnaby, Canada) and Rui Liu (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program may receive a first selection of a data model as a data source for a visualization, wherein the data model specifies data to be organized according to a set of measures and a set of dimensions. The progra...