ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,734, issued on March 31, was assigned to Docusign Inc. (San Francisco).

"Bulk envelope management in document management system" was invented by Michael Bresloff (Seattle) and Robert Reynolds (Tahuya, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document management system sends a distinct copy of a set of documents to each of a plurality of recipients in a bulk sending process. Each copy is associated with one or more actions to be taken by a corresponding recipient. The document management system generates an interface that displays, for each copy of the set of documents, the recipient of the copy and a status of the copy. The document m...