ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,864, issued on March 24, was assigned to OPEN TEXT INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Annotating documents on a mobile device" was invented by Daniel Biran (San Jose, Calif.), Matthew Riley Dean (San Francisdco, Calif.), David Gee Louie (Mountain View, Calif.) and Justin Fiedler (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes executing an application at a mobile device to provide a graphical user interface and interact with a content server to display an image stored at the content server on a display of the mobile device; while displaying the image, receiving a first user input for a first annotation to the image based ...