ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,803, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Docusign Inc. (San Francisco).

"Document management for an electronic document using a declarative expectation" was invented by Avanish Pathak (Rochester, N.Y.), Mason Alexander Chinkin (El Cerrito, Calif.), Bhargav Krishna (Snohomish, Wash.), Nicholas James Bolles (Wausau, Wis.) and Matthew Ritchie (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for deploying a software application associated with document management includes processing circuitry and computer-readable storage media. The computer-readable storage media includes logic that, when executed, causes the processing circui...