ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,117, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).
"Visualizing temporal information" was invented by Andrew C. Beers (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user selects a data source. The user also selects a first point in time and a second point in time. The visualization platform generates a query to perform a full outer join between (1) a first data set corresponding to the first point in time and (2) a second data set corresponding to the second point in time. The platform then executes the query to retrieve a result set. The platform classifies each record in the retrieved result set as new, present, or ...