ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,324, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Docusign Inc. (San Francisco).

"Edit interface in an online document system" was invented by Iqra Anjum (San Francisco), Marshall Nam (San Francisco), Caitlan Corbin (San Francisco) and Chad Roffey (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online document system can allow users to participate in collaborative negotiation of documents stored with in the online document system. To facilitate negotiations between multiple entities (each potentially including multiple users with different roles in the negotiation), the online document system includes a permissions system that allows per-clau...