ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,214, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Docusign Inc. (San Francisco).

"System for an electronic document with state variable integration to external computing resources" was invented by Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn (Dallas) and Houman Brian Shadab (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for an electronic document that includes one or more electronic components comprising: natural language content; and a programmable component that comprises computer executable instructions that define: one or more state objects that indicate compliance with the natural language content, wherein a state object comprises a state variable; and ...