ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,946, issued on July 1, was assigned to Avalara Inc. (Seattle).

"Summarization and personalization of big data method and apparatus" was invented by Praveen Selvam (Chennai, India), Sanjay Parthasarathy (Bellevue, Wash.) and Satyanarayana Rao Kalikivayi (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a user interface to summarize and personalize a large amount of price and product information, to identify patterns therein, and to generate recommendations in relation thereto are described herein."

The patent was filed on Jan. 30, 2024, under Application No. 18/427,450.

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