Workiva Assigned Patent

Workiva, Inc., Ames, IA, has been assigned a patent (10,733,369) developed by Hiatt, Dustin Lee, Charleston, SC, 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 March 5, 2019 (16/292,701).