ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,426, issued on Oct. 21.
"Method and system for cellular computation and display" was invented by Mehrdad Samadani (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for implementing computations in cellular units. The cells may be organized in various ways, including on a canvas, or in a grid. Aspects of these cells may be easily manipulated via user interface operations. A cell may contain program instructions, which may contain references to values computed by program instructions in other cells. Cells may be repositioned, split, or combined easily via user interface operations. A spreadsheet may be converted into...