ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,356, issued on June 23, was assigned to Row Zero Inc. (Seattle).

"Hybrid spreadsheet and coding environment supporting multiple programming languages" was invented by Grant B. Fresen (Seattle), Nicholas End (Seattle), Thomas Slatton (Seattle) and William Littlefield (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of implementing a spreadsheet includes, by a processor of a computing device, executing programming instructions that cause the computing device to output a prompt that comprises a plurality of candidate programming languages. When the system receives, in response to the prompt, a user selection of one of the candidat...