ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,915, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Adaptam Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and system for repeat 2D ordering of output from spreadsheet analytical functions" was invented by Robert E. Dvorak (Portola Valley, Calif.), Yuriy Garin (San Carlos, Calif.) and Alexey Verkhovskiy (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology creates three families of (predefined formula) spreadsheet functions which allows users to functional formulas that create multiple two-dimensional repetitions of range or array function formula calculations, non-range or non-array function algebraic formulas, or two-dimension fields w...