ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,534, issued on April 7.
"Spreadsheet-based software application development" was invented by Thomas Stachura (Edmonton, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein may be used with local spreadsheet applications, web, and/or cloud-based spreadsheet solutions, to create complex custom software applications. Spreadsheets themselves lack the conceptual framework to be used as a platform tool to build custom or complex software applications. Using the methods and systems described herein using low-code/no-code techniques, a designer can create custom and/or complex software applications using one or more spreadsheets a...