ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,148, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Adaptam Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Method and system for improved ordering of output from spreadsheet analytical functions" was invented by Robert E. Dvorak (Portola Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology creates a family of (predefined formula) spreadsheet functions which allows users to create programming loop equivalents in their regular spreadsheet cells employing familiar range functions (e.g., SUM, COUNT, MIN, MAX, etc.) with data filtering and output selection. The data can be sourced from multiple cells within the spreadsheet or a broad spectrum of numeric,...