ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,173, issued on March 25, was assigned to Adaptam Inc..

"Methods and systems for providing selective multi-way replication and atomization of cell blocks and other elements in spreadsheets and presentations" was invented by Robert E. Dvorak (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology includes multi-way triggering of automatic replication elements selectively within and across documents, cellular atomization of spreadsheet cells and charts while retaining their desired formula, function and content properties, combining the selective multi-way replication with the cellular atomization, and employing...