ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,131, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Istari Digital Inc. (Charleston, S.C.).

"Multimodal digital document interfaces for dynamic and collaborative reviews" was invented by William Roper Jr. (Charleston, S.C.), Christopher Lee Benson (Arlington, Va.), Sriram Krishnan (Cambridge, Mass.), Christopher Alexis Kotelly (Boston), Eric Watz (Beavercreek, Ohio), Abraham Aldaraca (Pittsburgh), James C. Pavur (Arlington, Va.), Hillary Hester (Birmingham, Ala.), Ross Billings (Reisterstown, Md.), Kyle Caldwell (Framingham, Mass.) and Michael Welles (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for a document review process a...