ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,706, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Workshare Ltd. (London).

"Transaction document management system and method" was invented by Ben Ridgway (London) and Ted Sabety (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention discloses a novel system and method for transaction document management where personnel from two sides of a business transaction involving one or more documents that constitute the transaction can interact with the system in order to automate the process of tracking executed signature pages associated with the documents. In addition, the system and method automates the tracking of exceptions to at least one of the ...