US Patent Issued to Coupa Software on Jan. 28 for "Machine evaluation of contract terms" (Australian, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,114, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Coupa Software Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Machine evaluation of contract terms" was invented by Jamie Wodetzki (Wellesley, Mass.), Kevin N. Jansz (Thornbury, Australia), Evan D. Greensmith (Belgrave, Australia), Justin M. Lipton (Gardenvale, Australia) and Marco Altieri (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method that may include defining an object model containing a structural representation of events and artefacts through which contracts are created, changed, and brought to an end. The method may include accessing a machine learning classifier...