ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,306, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MORGAN STANLEY SERVICES GROUP INC. (New York).

"Method and system for merging pdf documents with interactive table of contents" was invented by Jigar K. Gala (Mumbai, India), Rohan M. Barai (Mumbai, India), Melanie Dorn (Great Neck, N.Y.), Akshat K. Gandhi (Mumbai, India), Afshir M. Irani (Bronx, N.Y.), Jeffrey M. Kaufman (Port Washington, N.Y.), Nalini Kanta Nanda (Mumbai, India) and Harikumar Pillai (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for creating a navigable PDF document is disclosed and involves receiving at least two content segments, each with a corresponding data struc...