US Patent Issued to SIGMA COMPUTING on May 5 for "Automatic rewriting of subtotal calculations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,585, issued on May 5, was assigned to SIGMA COMPUTING INC. (San Francisco).

"Automatic rewriting of subtotal calculations" was invented by Jason D. Frantz (San Francisco), Robert C. Woollen (San Rafael, Calif.) and Joseph M. Hain (Benicia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic rewriting of subtotal calculations including presenting, by a table manager, a spreadsheet structure on a GUI of a client computing system, wherein the spreadsheet structure presents a data set from a cloud-based data warehouse; receiving, at a first column of the spreadsheet structure by the table manager, a formula that includes a reference to a secon...