ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,593, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Zipstack (Los Altos, Calif.).

"System and a method for data transformation using a spreadsheet-like user interface" was invented by Shuveb Hussain (Chennai, India), Arun Venkataswamy (Chennai, India), Narendran HAriparant Haman (Chennai, India) and Rao Koteswara (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for data transformation using a spreadsheet paradigm-based user interface are disclosed. Data stored in a data table is processed and a subset of data is extracted. Spreadsheet-specific data processing options are displayed on a user interface along with the subset of...