ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,855, issued on April 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Auto-formatting of a data table" was invented by Haoyu Dong (Beijing), Zhouyu Fu (Redmond, Wash.), Shi Han (Beijing) and Dongmei Zhang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to implementations of the present disclosure, there is provided a solution for auto-formatting of a data table. A computer-implemented method comprises obtaining values of at least one attribute for a plurality of cells in a data table, the values of the at least one attribute indicating at least one of a semantic meaning of data filled in the cells or a struc...