ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,244, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Docusign Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for forming, storing, managing, and executing contracts" was invented by Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for computable contracts that includes a contract management system accessible by involved parties, managing a formation stage of a contract document by obtaining object components, assembling a contract object graph from the object components, and committing the contract object graph to post formation execution; and in an execution environment during a post-formation stage, executing the co...