ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,117, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Inline structured query language queries in a spreadsheet" was invented by Xi Wu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for implementing inline structured query language (SQL) queries, in a spreadsheet application. A method includes: receiving, via a user interface of a spreadsheet application, first input including an SQL statement, the first input being provided in association with a first cell in a first column and a first row in a spreadsheet in the spreadsheet application, and the SQL statement including a reference to a...