ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,856, issued on July 1, was assigned to Coupa Software Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Community-based data analysis in a software-as-a-service system using a deep learning classifier" was invented by Scott Harris (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Vincent Toesca (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for community-based spend analysis in a software-as-a-service computing environment are disclosed. For example, embodiments disclose a method that may include receiving, at a spend management computer system (SMCS) instance of a region, a request for one or more optimization recommendations. The method may include analyzing, by the S...