ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,913, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ShelterZoom Corp. (New York).

"Dissemination and tracking of documents with downstream control" was invented by Chao Cheng-Shorland (New York) and Amir Homayoun Alishahi (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for managing the dissemination of documents using downstream control. A document linking system may facilitate the creation of a document link, graphical document link, and/or a corresponding document token. This link may be distributed downstream via messages, emails, or other applications. The document linkin...