ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,748, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).
"Generating shortcut paths between related objects" was invented by Harsh Verma (Kirkland, Wash.), Ramakrishna Casturi (Redwood, Wash.), Tyler James-Buker Doyle (Seattle), Arun Durairaju (Sammamish, Wash.) and Tao Tao (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method executes at a computing device having one or more processors and memory. The device identifies a set of objects for a data visualization platform, each object in the set of objects representing a database, a data source, a table, a data field, a user, a visualization worksheet, or a calculated...