ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,241, issued on April 15, was assigned to BARGAINING TABLE INC. (Denver).
"Secure document management systems" was invented by Thomas Benjamin Romer (Denver) and Paul Joseph Lyman Schottland (Fort Mill, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for secure document management including receiving, at a kernel level of an operating system, a document access instruction for a document from a user level application. A document identifier associated with the document is retrieved. Document access permissions associated with the document identifier ar...