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<section begin="conveyance" />Each assignment includes conveyance text describing what type of transaction occurred. The assignment records and documents are exchanged with the USPTO typically through a company representative or an attorney representing the company involved. The Conveyance Table records the both the type of transaction that occurred and the correspondent in charge of the assignment records. The conveyance text may be extremely relevant in tracking a firm's interactions with other IP firms, the historical context for a firm's asserted [[Small Entity vs. Micro Entity|entity status]] with the UPSTO, and potentially the effects of patent case settlements and resolutions. Eventually, the large variety of conveyance text will be codified. <section end="conveyance" />