ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,521, issued on March 18, was assigned to ABC Legal Services LLC.

"Secure service recipient online portal" was invented by Alexander J L Theoharis (Seattle), Timothy D. Dinehart (Seattle), Diane I. Conrad (Seattle), Daniel Beier (Seattle), Brandon H. Fuller (Seattle), James J. MacLeod (Seattle), Emily A. Barnard (Seattle), David Thorn (Seattle), Akshitha Vaddi (Seattle) and Aaron Cushman (Fairview, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems that allow a process service recipient to electronically receive documents include receiving personally identifiable information about the recipient, generating a retrieval code speci...