ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,091, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SIGMA COMPUTING INC. (San Francisco).

"Assigning sequence numbers in editable tables" was invented by Max H. Seiden (San Francisco), Rodolphe Gagneron (San Diego) and Gregory G. Owen (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Assigning sequence numbers in editable tables including receiving, by a table manager via a client computing system, an instruction to create a new row on an editable table in a cloud-based data warehouse, wherein the instruction comprises a column value and a row identifier of an adjacent row; calculating, by the table manager, a sequence value for a sequence column ...