ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,816, issued on May 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Integrating external program code with spreadsheet application" was invented by Joseph John McDaid (Seattle), Keyur Patel (Seattle), Arturo Goicochea Hoefken (Seattle), Eoin Burke (Seattle), Su-Piao Wu (Sammamish, Wash.), James Masson (Seattle), Christopher Gross (Redmond, Wash.), Jake Elliot Armstrong (Toronto), Carlos Augusto Otero (Seattle), John Herbert Martin Williams (Cambridge, Great Britain), Nicholas Charles Wilson (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andrew Donald Gordon (Cambridge, Great Britain), Neil Toronto (Cambridge, Great Britain), Anders Hejlsberg (Seattle), Guido Van Rossum (Seattle...