US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on June 17 for "Integrating non-native dependencies in spreadsheet applications" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,241, issued on June 17, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Integrating non-native dependencies in spreadsheet applications" was invented by Joseph John McDaid (Seattle), Su-Piao Wu (Sammamish, Wash.), Alexander Yuryevich Novokhodko (Redmond, Wash.) and Guido Van Rossum (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is disclosed herein for integrating native and non-native dependencies in a spreadsheet hosted by a spreadsheet application. In an implementation, a computing apparatus identifies a formula in a first cell of a spreadsheet which includes a non-native argument. The computing ap...