ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,690, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Budget-based approval-less ordering for punchout users in an ecommerce marketplace" was invented by Ankur Anand (Hyderabad, India), Vikash Kumar Jain (Hyderabad, India), Manish Kumar (Sriganganagar, India), Abhinav Kasliwal (Shoreline, Wash.), Santosh Vasant Bhosale (Bothell, Wash.), Hersh Nagar (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Brandon Le (Austin, Texas), Satya S Mishra (Redmond, Wash.), Neha Goswami (Bellevue, Wash.), Steven David Kann (Mercer Island, Wash.), Yi Lu (Bellevue, Wash.) and Kian Leong Ong (Lynnwood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A customer eProcur...