US Patent Issued to WORKIVA on Feb. 18 for "Method, system, and computing device for facilitating private drafting" (Iowa, Montana, Georgia, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,502, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to WORKIVA INC. (Ames, Iowa).

"Method, system, and computing device for facilitating private drafting" was invented by Travis Smith (Ames, Iowa), Michael Jerome Thiesen (Helena, Mont.), Hannah Joy Deering (Ames, Iowa), Mark David Erickson (Ankeny, Iowa), Ross W. Hendrickson (Prescott, Ariz.), Bryon Lee Marks (Huxley, Iowa) and Tanner Davis Miller (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for facilitating private drafting is described. A request to edit a section of a document in a draft mode is received from a first user of a plurality of users collaborating on the document. An edit...