ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,598, issued on April 15, was assigned to Coupa Software Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Delegated document scan and storage" was invented by Doug Benson (Burlingame, Calif.), Dan Benson (San Clemente, Calif.) and Jeffrey Hellman (Albuquerque, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, the disclosure provides a machine-implemented technique that improves the traditional methods of expense reimbursement processes by allowing an authorized delegate, e.g., administrative assistant, that is acting on behalf of another, e.g., account owner, to add expense items through a device on which the delegate is logged-in to, as opposed to a d...