US Patent Issued to Tableau Software on May 26 for "Data preparation user interface with conglomerate heterogeneous process flow elements" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,952, issued on May 26, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).

"Data preparation user interface with conglomerate heterogeneous process flow elements" was invented by Jun Kim (Sammamish, Wash.), Will Pugh (Seattle) and Isaac Kunen (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method prepares data for analysis. A user interface includes a flow pane, which includes a flow diagram with nodes, each node having an intermediate set and specifying an operation. A first user input selects a first node, which specifies a first operation. In response, the method displays node internals for the first node, including a description of the firs...