US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 23 for "Multiple datapoint formats in spreadsheets" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,511, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Multiple datapoint formats in spreadsheets" was invented by Derek Liddell (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein that allow multiple values to be stored and referenced individually in a spreadsheet or table cell. In an implementation, an application identifies a format of a cell in a spreadsheet with a format having multiple data points. The application receives multiple values corresponding to the multiple data points and stores each value of the multiple values in the cell as a s...