ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,767, issued on April 29, was assigned to Coupa Software Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"De-duplicating transaction records using targeted fuzzy matching" was invented by Jyotirmaya Mahanta (Pune, India), Ankit Narang (Pune, India), Shoan Jain (Berkeley, Calif.) and Prasanna Kumar (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes obtaining, by a de-duplication server, a candidate pair of a plurality of digitally stored documents from a document database. Text elements are identified from each digitally stored document in the candidate pair in response, and the text elements are ...