ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,433, issued on July 15, was assigned to Avalara Inc (Seattle).

"Compliance document creation, modification, and provisioning" was invented by Michael J. Maselli (Cary, N.C.) and Andrew Brandon Chan (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for facilitating creation, modification, provisioning and transfer of trusted electronic compliance documents. For each of multiple user requests to provide or receive trusted electronic compliance documents, automated operations are performed to determine whether the request is directed to one of a plurality of maintained trusted electronic compliance documents. Each trust...