ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,532, issued on March 24, was assigned to SIGMA COMPUTING INC. (San Francisco).

"Managing worksheet access" was invented by Julie L. Lemieux (San Francisco), Jason D. Frantz (San Francisco), James L. Gale (San Francisco) and Donald Huang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing worksheet access including receiving a request from a first user account to access a worksheet shared from a second user account, wherein the worksheet comprises a worksheet architecture for at least one data set from a database; determining that the first user account is authorized to access the worksheet architecture of the worksheet; determini...