ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,821, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Using hyperlinks to represent form field elements" was invented by John Brinkman (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for generating form field elements in a document based on hyperlinks with the form field properties representing properties of a form field. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the method may include generating a visible anchor element in a first document, the visible anchor element representing a hyperlink containing the form field properties of a form field of the first document. The method may further include ...