US Patent Issued to Planisware on June 30 for "Enhanced mechanisms for managing multidimensional data" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,172, issued on June 30, was assigned to Planisware SAS (Chatillon, France).

"Enhanced mechanisms for managing multidimensional data" was invented by Pierre Demonsant (Paris), Mathieu Gautier (Paris), Thibault Roche (Paris) and Baptiste Henriquez (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enhanced multidimensional data management system significantly reduces the resources required to convert a spreadsheet into an enterprise collaborative system. A spreadsheet may be imported as is without modifications. Additional information that cannot be automatically inferred about the data model used in the spreadsheet is obtained. Dimensio...