US Patent Issued on April 14 for "System and method for transforming an electronic file into a rights controlled and social document" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,506, issued on April 14.

"System and method for transforming an electronic file into a rights controlled and social document" was invented by Zafar Khan (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Terrance Tomkow (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic document transformation and sharing system and method that allows a document originator control over an electronic document shared by the document originator with at least one recipient. An input device receives an original electronic document and document-specific controls instructions pertaining to said original electronic document. By transformation, a new encrypted transformatio...