Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
170 patents granted to the 4 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to DocuSign, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
170
162 utility, 8 reissue, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
36
Against 37 in 2024 and 30 in 2023
Applications published
214
24 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
4
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
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Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Computer technology81
Digital communication33
IT methods for management3
Telecommunications1
Audio-visual technology1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name4 counted
DOCUSIGN, INC. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
164 granted
33 publishedDocuSign, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
176 publishedDocuSign International (EMEA) Limited a subsidiary
IE, as the owner printed on each patent
6 granted
2 publishedDocuSign International (EMEA) Limited a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in IE
0 granted
3 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,511,278 | Audit records monitoring using a blockchain structure | Digital communication | DOCUSIGN, INC. |
| Dec 2, 2025 | 12,487,803 | Document management for an electronic document using a declarative expectation | Computer technology | DOCUSIGN, INC. |
| Oct 7, 2025 | 12,437,352 | System and method for a computing environment for verifiable execution of data-driven contracts | Digital communication | DOCUSIGN, INC. |
| Sep 9, 2025 | 12,411,896 | Document graph | Computer technology | DOCUSIGN, INC. |
| Sep 2, 2025 | 12,405,785 | Phased deployment | Computer technology | DOCUSIGN, INC. |
| Jul 29, 2025 | 12,373,474 | Querying agreement document models in a document management system | Computer technology | DOCUSIGN, INC. |
| Jul 15, 2025 | 12,361,120 | Automatic detection and secure notification of events via webhook listener | Computer technology | DOCUSIGN, INC. |
| Jun 24, 2025 | 12,340,612 | Document identification and splitting in an online document system | Computer technology | DOCUSIGN, INC. |
| Jun 24, 2025 | 12,340,605 | Optical character recognition system with back propagation of an objective loss function | Computer technology | DOCUSIGN, INC. |
| Jun 24, 2025 | 12,340,433 | Agreement document execution based on document model in a document management system | Computer technology | DOCUSIGN, INC. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Oct 23, 2025 | 2025/0328576 | DOCUMENT CONTAINER WITH CANDIDATE DOCUMENTS | Computer technology | DocuSign, Inc. |
| Oct 9, 2025 | 2025/0315555 | IDENTIFICATION OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION IN DATASETS | Computer technology | DOCUSIGN, INC. |
| Oct 2, 2025 | 2025/0307749 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT OBLIGATION MONITORING | IT methods for management | DOCUSIGN, INC. |
| Sep 25, 2025 | 2025/0299095 | GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORK MODEL TRAINING USING DISTRIBUTED LEDGER | Computer technology | DocuSign International (EMEA) Limited |
| Sep 18, 2025 | 2025/0292607 | OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION SYSTEM WITH BACK PROPAGATION OF AN OBJECTIVE LOSS FUNCTION | Computer technology | DocuSign, Inc. |
| Sep 11, 2025 | 2025/0284774 | MACHINE LEARNED FEATURE RECOMMENDATION ENGINE IN A DIGITAL TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT PLATFORM | Computer technology | DOCUSIGN, INC. |
| Aug 21, 2025 | 2025/0265410 | EMBEDDED TAG INTERFACE FOR DOCUMENT GENERATION IN A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | Computer technology | DOCUSIGN, INC. |
| Aug 14, 2025 | 2025/0258876 | MACHINE LEARNED MODEL FOR CONTRACT GENERATION IN A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | Computer technology | DOCUSIGN, INC. |
| Jul 24, 2025 | 2025/0238607 | DOCUMENT GENERATION RULES | Computer technology | DOCUSIGN, INC. |
| Jul 24, 2025 | 2025/0238605 | DOCUMENT TEMPLATE GENERATION | Computer technology | DOCUSIGN, INC. |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 60 · Digital communication 7 · IT methods for management 4.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.