US Patent Issued to Google on May 26 for "Efficient copy paste in a collaborative spreadsheet" (Washington, New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,509, issued on May 26, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Efficient copy paste in a collaborative spreadsheet" was invented by Benjamin Wolfe Simon (Seattle), Amod Karve (Clifton, N.J.), Joshua Ari Danziger (Metuchen, N.J.) and Zachary Erik Lloyd (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first request of the first user device to perform a copy-past change to copy content from a source range to a destination range of a local model of the collaborative spreadsheet stored at the first user device is received by a first user device. An indication of a second request of a second user device to perform an intersecti...