ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,352, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Docusign Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for a computing environment for verifiable execution of data-driven contracts" was invented by Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn (Irving, Calif.), Ilya Ostrovskiy (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Jerome Simeon (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for establishing a verified computing environment for executing data-driven contracts, comprising a cryptographic directed acyclic graph object model of a data-driven contract, wherein at least a subset of the objects in the MDAG correspond to clause state of at least one programmable clause of the d...