US Patent Issued to D2L on March 4 for "System and methods for context specific annotation of electronic files" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,798, issued on March 4, was assigned to D2L Corp. (Kitchener, Canada).

"System and methods for context specific annotation of electronic files" was invented by Matthew Robert Teskey (New Hamburg, Canada), Kenneth James Chapman (Kitchener, Canada), Jeremy Jason Auger (Breslau, Canada) and Brian John Cepuran (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein are directed to an annotation system having a remote processor, and a client processor in data communication with the remote processor. The client processor is adapted to send a first request for an electronic file to the remote processor, receive the ele...