US Patent Issued to Docusign on Jan. 28 for "Document management using clause clusters" (Georgia, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,575, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Docusign Inc. (San Francisco).

"Document management using clause clusters" was invented by Kenneth Patrick Slattery (Portsmouth, N.H.) and James Kenneth Wagner Jr. (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document management system analyzes document clauses using document clause clusters. The document management system uses measures of similarity between document clauses from different documents to assign clauses to clause clusters. Clause clusters may be used to perform various analyses, such as to assign clauses a classification corresponding to a relevant clause cluster. The document manage...