ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,129, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SIGMA COMPUTING INC. (San Francisco).

"Executing workbook code within a cloud-based data warehouse" was invented by Stipo Josipovic (San Francisco), Gregory G. Owen (San Mateo, Calif.), Neil F. Lugovoy (Los Gatos, Calif.), Kenneth Truong (Temple City, Calif.), Donald Huang (San Francisco), James L. Gale (San Francisco), Joseph M. Hain (Benicia, Calif.) and Siyuan Fan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Executing workbook code within a cloud-based data warehouse including receiving, by a workbook manager from a client computing system, analysis code via a workbook presented on the clie...