ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,945, issued on March 25, was assigned to VOCALINK Ltd. (London).

"Generating a secure access link to a document using a document access facilitator" was invented by Sridhar Ramalingam (Wildwood, Mo.), Kuldeep Kumar (Dunstable, Great Britain) and Rekha Kusumanchi (Croxley Green, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure herein describes providing access to documents in a document storage platform using a document access facilitator. A base address and a security key associated with the document storage platform is obtained. A document summary presentation message is received from a presenter including a document ide...