ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,995, issued on May 20, was assigned to Docusign Inc. (San Francisco).
"Delegated document sending and management" was invented by Janice Bae (Redwood City, Calif.), Pavel Rebriy (Renton, Wash.), Matthew Ritchie (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Macklin Douglas Underdown (Detroit).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system receives a request associated with a first account to delegate, to a second account, authority to send documents on behalf of the first account. The request identifies requirements that must be satisfied before the second account can send documents on behalf of the first account. Responsive to receiving a request to send a fir...