US Patent Issued to Dayal Family on Feb. 3 for "Method and system for dynamic naming of component expressions within a formula in a cell in a spreadsheet application" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,642, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dayal Family LLC (Chicago).

"Method and system for dynamic naming of component expressions within a formula in a cell in a spreadsheet application" was invented by Sandeep Dayal (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for giving a name to an expression within a cell formula so that the said expression can be represented by the given name in all subsequent references within the cell formula in a spreadsheet application. In the edit mode, a user may enter any expression within a formula by its given name after defining it once anywhere in that formula. In the view m...