Workiva Assigned Patent

Workiva, Inc., Ames, IA, has been assigned a patent (10,769,361) developed by Hiatt, Dustin Lee, Charleston, SC, Smith, Travis Lee, Ames, IA, Pillar, John, Midland, GA, and Beam, Joshua Allen, Columbus, GA, for “data storage and retrieval system and method for storing cell coordinates in a computer memory.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”In an embodiment, a data storage and retrieval system includes a computing device that configures the computer memory according to an Rtree (a type of logic tree) representing a structure of a spreadsheet. The computer memory may be internal to or external to the computing device. In an embodiment, the RTree has a plurality of nodes, at least some of which contain one or more minimum bounding rectangles. Each minimum bounding rectangle (MBR) encompasses cells of the spreadsheet from a different one of a plurality of columns of the spreadsheet, but does not encompass cells of any of the other columns of the plurality of columns. A node of the RTree may hold multiple MBRs or a single MBR.”

The patent application was filed on February 22, 2019 (16/282,7