ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,292, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Ironclad Inc. (San Francisco).

"Snapshot capture of computing device user interfaces" was invented by Parimal Rane (Indianapolis) and Michael Welling (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for automating the recording of an evidentiary history (e.g., versions audit trail) of a graphical user interface with an embedded clickwrap agreement. The snapshot server captures and outputs snapshot records of a graphical user interface displaying the click-wrap agreement on an end user computing platfo...