ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,096, issued on June 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Deferred formula computation" was invented by Gregory S. Lindhorst (Seattle), Jonathan Michael Stall (Woodinville, Wash.), Shantanu Kiran Pakhare (Redmond, Wash.), Vamsi Modem (Snohomish, Wash.) and Lee McCall Saltzman (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Deferred formula computation executes software containing a set of programmed formulas, wherein the set includes a first programmed formula defined in an associated dependency graph to be dependent on a result of a second programmed formula. A method may encounter a reference to the firs...