ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,578, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HYDRING LLC (Wayne, Pa.).

"System and method for scalable collaborative document creation and monitoring" was invented by Dmitry Erkin (Needham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of collaboration includes creating an electronic document file representing a document, file having a plurality of sections denoted by table of contents metadata and using the table of contents metadata; identifying a plurality of document sections, receiving user input reflecting a preference for division of the plurality of document sections into separate section files and dividing the electronic document...