ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,320, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to UXSTORM LLC (Damascus, Md.).
"PDF tracking for local editing and digital signing for applications" was invented by Reed Wentworth Owens (Damascus, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to an application server system and method for verifying the provenance of a candidate electronic file, such as a Portable Document File, in a workflow whereby an electronic document is encoded with a hidden annotation having a key unique to the workflow and/or document. After the document is resubmitted with form changes and/or signatures from a client device, the resubmitted document...