ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,308, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Open Text Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Systems and methods of tracking chain of custody of documents" was invented by Shiva Sri Santosha Phani Krishna Krovvidi (Tanuku, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of tracking chain of custody of relevant electronic documents are provided. An example method begins with receiving an electronic document collection request. In response, a set of relevant electronic documents is retrieved, a tracking unit is generated, and the tracking unit is assigned to the set of relevant electronic documents. The tracking unit includes: a state machine ...