US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Oct. 21 for "Dynamically limiting the scope of spreadsheet recalculations" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,225, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Dynamically limiting the scope of spreadsheet recalculations" was invented by Prashant Anand Shirolkar (Kirkland, Wash.), George Randell Dong (Sammamish, Wash.), Alexander Yuryevich Novokhodko (Redmond, Wash.) and Jeffrey James Duzak (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various implementations, a calculation manger identifies one or more external references within a workbook, wherein the workbook resides in a spreadsheet environment comprising multiple workbooks. The recalculation manager then identifies a scope of a recalculati...