ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,742, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to WORKIVA INC. (Ames, Iowa).

"System and method for establishing range link between source and destination ranges" was invented by Kaitlyn Alise Childers (Port Charlotte, Fla.), Joshua John Przybyszewski (Ames, Iowa), Gabriela Plamenova Georgieva (Columbia, Mo.) and Jacob Johnson (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for establishing a range link between source and destination ranges that may provide more efficient synchronization between source and destination documents are provided. In particular, a computing device may create a first source range from a range of cells ...