ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,764, issued on March 24, was assigned to Docusign Inc. (San Francisco).

"Malicious behavior detection and mitigation in a document execution environment" was invented by Nicholas William West (Redmond, Wash.), Brian Yeckley (Chicago), Abhijit Salvi (Cupertino, Calif.), Taiga Matsumoto (Redmond, Wash.), Glenn Doren (Seattle), Alexander Gregory Silverman (Seattle), Roshan Satish (Seattle) and Michael Anthony Palazzolo (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document execution engine that receives a document for execution within a document execution environment. The document execution engine may also detect activity within the docume...