ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,307, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Autonomous spreadsheet creation" was invented by Andrew J. Lavery (Austin, Texas), Earl J. Wagner (Chicago) and Matthew Albright (Montclair, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a processing device, a natural language query corresponding to a request to create a document having a tabular structure, identifying, by the processing device, one or more attribute categories pertaining to the document, converting, by the processing device, the natural language query into a data access query for accessing at least one external data so...