ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,006, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Workday Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).
"Copy-paste triggered formula generation" was invented by William James Murphy (Boulder, Colo.) and Leonard Karpel (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an interface configured to receive a paste-to data cell. The system includes a processor configured to: determine whether there is an exact match key for a copy-from data set; in response to there not being the exact match key for the copy-from data set, determine whether there is a smart formula for the copy-from data set; and in response to there being the smart formula for the cop...