ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,393, issued on June 3, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"LLM integrations for data visualization in spreadsheet environments" was invented by Johnnie C. Thomas (Seattle), Vipul Garg (Kirkland, Wash.), Javier Ricardo Escobar Avila (Redmond, Wash.), Xiaomei Wang (Sammamish, Wash.), Auston Robert Wallace (Seattle) and Christopher Evan Oslund (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is disclosed herein for the integration of spreadsheet environments with an LLM service. In an implementation, an application receives a natural language input from a user associated with visualization of data host...