ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,254, issued on May 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for handling macro compatibility for documents at a storage system" was invented by Paneendra Anantha Rao Bapu (Bangalore, India), Sowmith Manepalli (Hyderabad, India), Sourav Poddar (Kolkata, India), Abhay Garg (New Delhi), Alexandre Ginet (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Arijit De (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document including one or more macros in a first programming language is identified. A determination is made that one or more objects of the document are referenced by a function defined by a macro of the one or more macro...