US Patent Issued to Adaptam on June 3 for "Methods and systems for sorting spreadsheet cells with formulas" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,695, issued on June 3, was assigned to Adaptam Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for sorting spreadsheet cells with formulas" was invented by Robert E. Dvorak (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Yuriy Garin (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed relates to accessing data within or external to spreadsheet cells (NSC data) and presenting it to users, so they can select one or more value to populate the cell. In one implementation, the technology disclosed is a spreadsheet function (predefined formula) where the user inputs a cell range or NSC data formula resulting in a button operated drop-dow...