ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,171, issued on March 25, was assigned to SIGMA COMPUTING INC. (San Francisco).
"Editing data sets via non-editable workbooks" was invented by Siyuan Fan (San Francisco), Jack R. Bens (San Francisco), Stipo Josipovic (San Francisco) and Janice Lyu (Queens, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Editing data sets via non-editable workbooks including presenting, by a workbook manager on a client computing system, a workbook in an exploration mode that displays edits to the workbook without altering the workbook, wherein the workbook presents a data set from a cloud-based data warehouse; receiving, by the workbook manager via the workbook,...