ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,008, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Entrust & Title (FZE) (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates).

"System and method for securing electronic document execution and authentication" was invented by Shamsh Hadi (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments provide an environment where a user first creates or imports a document comprising of fields to be completed by one or more users. All users who have view-only access or can act on a document are considered to be "in the workflow." All users in the workflow (except view-only users) can take actions in the document by editing, adding or entering values or signatures ...