ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,169, issued on March 25, was assigned to SIGMA COMPUTING INC. (San Francisco).

"Using lightweight references to present a worksheet" was invented by Massimo D. Siboldi (San Francisco) and Jason D. Frantz (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Using lightweight references to present a worksheet including receiving, from a first user account, a request for a worksheet presenting a data set from a database, wherein the worksheet was generated by a second user account; determining that the request was not generated from the second user account; and in response to the determination that the request is not from the second user acco...