ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,058, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AppZen Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for automatically matching purchase order line-items with accounts payable invoice line-items" was invented by Amrit Singhal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Edris Naderan (San Jose, Calif.), Ankit Bansal (Karauli, India), Akash Vijay Hajare (Pune, India) and Kunal Verma (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer readable storage medium has instructions executed by a processor to access a purchase order data set. An invoice data set is ingested. Tuples of purchase order line-items from the purchase order data set are gath...