ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,275, issued on June 16, was assigned to LAD Verification Services LLC (Hilliard, Ohio).

"Acknowledgment authentication system and method" was invented by David C. Ruma (Powell, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a system for and method of enabling an initiating party to capture, store, and retrieve an image of at least one acknowledging party performing an acknowledgement requested by the initiating party where the acknowledging party(s) may be remotely located from the initiating party."

The patent was filed on Jan. 9, 2025, under Application No. 19/014,413.

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