ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,014, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Avalara Inc. (Seattle).

"Digital document organizer service" was invented by Gavin Whyte (Raleigh, N.C.), Samantha Chan (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Albert Michael Boulus (Cary, N.C.), Meir Lowy (Spring Valley, N.Y.), Henry Nove (Monroe, N.Y.), Michael J. Maselli (Cary, N.C.), Abraham Brach (Monsey, N.Y.), Scott Seely (Galesville, Wis.) and Naveen Kumar Agrawal (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a computer system for providing a digital document organizer service is disclosed. The method includes generating a digital document organizer for a user of an online software...