ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,381, issued on May 13, was assigned to DOCUSIGN INC. (San Francisco).

"Active agreement components" was invented by Parsa Pezeshki (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn (Dallas), David Gonzalez (Seattle) and Michael Grover (Hoboken, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for a system document management comprising one or more processors having access to a memory. The system is configured to open an electronic document that is to be electronically signed, the electronic document having an active component connected to an external data source. The system is further configured to, while the electronic docume...