US Patent Issued to Adaptam on Dec. 30 for "Methods and systems for flexibly linking spreadsheet cell movements and formulas" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,269, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Adaptam Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for flexibly linking spreadsheet cell movements and formulas" was invented by Robert E. Dvorak (Portola Valley, Calif.), Yuriy Garin (San Carlos, Calif.) and Alexey Verkhovskiy (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology creates a set of technologies that formulaically and/or positionally link cell(s) to spreadsheet functions or capabilities that flex the number of cells they instantiate. Thereby automatically altering the cell formula and/or the cell position reflecting those linked/connected flex range changes...