Patent 10545953 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on January, 2020 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present disclosure provides a novel approach for creating and referencing arrays as implemented in a spreadsheet application. Aspects of the present disclosure include, but are not limited to: referencing arrays, creating dynamic arrays, collapsing values of an array into a single cell, spilling values of an array to a table, referencing one or more values in collapsed arrays, visually indicating no spill errors while maintaining calculation capabilities thereon, and implicit intersection of data.