ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,692, issued on June 3, was assigned to SIGMA COMPUTING INC. (San Francisco).

"Annotating data points on a workbook element" was invented by Gregory G. Owen (San Mateo, Calif.) and Stipo Josipovic (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Annotating data points on a workbook element, including: receiving, by a workbook manager from a client computing system, an annotation for a data point of an element of a workbook, wherein the workbook presents a dataset from a cloud-based data warehouse; and storing, by the workbook manager and into the cloud-based data warehouse, the annotation in association with a record in the dataset corres...