ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,015, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for interactive analysis" was invented by Vijaya Krushna Ponnada (Srikakulam, India), Senthil Premkumar (Hyderabad, India), Kapil Kumawat (Hyderabad, India), David van Heusden (Utrecht, Netherlands), Sandip Devjibhai Patel (Amreli, India) and Satyanarayana Kondamuri (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating and rendering interactive analysis are provided. The interactive analysis includes filters that may be provided based upon table relationships and/or persistent data inputs."

The patent was f...