US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 10 for "Dynamically and selectively updated spreadsheets based on knowledge monitoring and natural language processing" (New Jersey, Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,823, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Dynamically and selectively updated spreadsheets based on knowledge monitoring and natural language processing" 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 identifying, by a processing device, a document having a tabular structure including cells. The document is associated with a set of update controls for automatically updating content in at least one cell of the cells. The method further includes detecting, by the processing device and bas...