ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,970, issued on July 14, was assigned to Docusign Inc. (San Francisco).

"Semantic search and summarization for electronic documents" was invented by Casey Hudetz (San Francisco), Keenan Wells (San Francisco), Yan He (San Francisco), Alexey Zakhvatov (San Francisco), Yan Pui Lam (San Francisco), Soumya Srivastava (San Francisco), Mario M. Grebelski (San Francisco), Souleiman Hasan (San Francisco), Abhinav U. Sharma (San Francisco) and Navin Albert (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for an artificial intelligence (AI) platform to search a document collection are described. Embodiments may use AI and machine learnin...