ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,019, issued on March 18.

"Method and system for facilitating electronic witnessing of electronic signatures" was invented by Yuri L. Eliezer (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable media (CRM) are disclosed for facilitating the electronic signing of a document. The disclosure includes methods, systems and CRM for performing at least the following: i) identifying an eligible witness electronic device from a signature request initiated by a signor electronic device associated with a signor; ii) verifying the signor electronic device with the witness electronic device based on at least one parame...