US Patent Issued to SIGMA COMPUTING on June 23 for "Adding a column into a worksheet" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,163, issued on June 23, was assigned to SIGMA COMPUTING INC. (San Francisco).

"Adding a column into a worksheet" was invented by Deepanshu Utkarsh (San Francisco), Alexis Johnson (Minneapolis), Joseph M. Hain (Benicia, Calif.), Kenneth Truong (Temple City, Calif.) and Nipurn Doshi (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adding a column into a worksheet, including: receiving, via a spreadsheet interface comprising a first worksheet, a request to add a new column to the first worksheet, wherein the request includes a key that identifies a reference column in the first worksheet, a specification of a second worksheet that com...