ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,819, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SIGMA COMPUTING INC. (San Francisco).

"Creating accessible model data sets" was invented by Jason D. Frantz (San Francisco), Max H. Seiden (San Francisco), Donald Huang (San Francisco) and Stipo Josipovic (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Creating accessible model data sets including receiving, by a query manager via a spreadsheet interface, an instruction to create a model data set using a data source from a data warehouse, wherein the model data set is a reusable modeling layer comprising at least a portion of the data source; building, by the query manager using the instruction ...