US Patent Issued to Adaptam on Nov. 11 for "Methods and systems for presenting drop-down, pop-up or other presentation of a multi-value data set in a spreadsheet cell" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,880, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Adaptam Inc. (Palo Alto, Pa.).

"Methods and systems for presenting drop-down, pop-up or other presentation of a multi-value data set in a spreadsheet cell" was invented by Robert E. Dvorak (Portola Valley, 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 but...