US Patent Issued to Oracle International on March 25 for "Ability to add non-direct ancestor columns in child spreadsheets" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,170, issued on March 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Ability to add non-direct ancestor columns in child spreadsheets" was invented by Xiameng Chen (Foster City, Calif.) and Shaun Logan (Melrose, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments facilitate augmenting a client-side worksheet of a spreadsheet with context information retrieved from non-direct ancestor worksheets of the client-side worksheet. A spreadsheet plug-in enables retrieval of the context information from a server system, e.g., cloud-based database, via one or more web services. In a specific embodiment, the cont...