ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,272, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Docusign Inc. (San Francisco).

"Entire document summarization" was invented by Ramachandra Kota (San Francisco), Souleiman Hasan (Dublin), Yan He (San Francisco), Sean Mahon (Dublin), Alexey Zakhvatov (San Francisco), Yan Pui Lam (San Francisco) and Navin Albert (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system, and a computer program product for summarizing an electronic document. A structural representation of the document is generated and/or received. The structural representation specifies one or more elements of the document and one or more relationships between one or more ...