ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,518, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Integrating a document signature system with an account management system" was invented by Esther Chou (Oakland, Calif.), Angela Field (Alameda, Calif.), Hameez Farrell (Toronto), Jennifer Young (Oakland, Calif.), Mackenzie Cyr (Baltimore), Mara Saltzman (Oakland, Calif.), Martin Todorov (San Francisco), Sulav Regmi (San Mateo, Calif.), Timothy Finnerty (Yulee, Fla.), Vishaka Varma Vimal (Mountain View, Calif.) and David Tang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and me...