ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,757, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to The Mirror Project LLC (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Authority binding system and computer-implemented method for a digital document" was invented by Scott Lipskin (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authority binding system for a digital document is provided. The system includes a document entity configured to represent the digital document as a canonical identity that persists across time; a temporal state model configured to receive the digital document from the document entity, receive a time output from a clock, and bind an authoritative state of the digital document to the time out...