ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,199, issued on March 17, was assigned to Wolters Kluwer DXG U.S. Inc. (Riverwoods, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for tracking document reuse and automatically updating document fragments across one or more platforms" was invented by Dharmendra Balwani (Oswego, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of content reuse are disclosed. A user input may be received to include a portion of a source document, from a source system, into a target document. The source document may be associated with a source document identifier. A cache document, including a cache fragment may be generated. The cache fragment may include the port...