US Patent Issued to Coupa Software on July 15 for "Systems and methods for determining duty costs associated with a supply chain network" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,369, issued on July 15, was assigned to Coupa Software Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for determining duty costs associated with a supply chain network" was invented by Tung Hoang Le (Waterloo, Canada), Zheng Ouyang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Seyed Ali Taghavi Behbahani (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Gary Robert Strickler (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Input data provides an order of a quantity of finished goods to a site. Software is programmed for: accessing data defining an architecture of the supply chain network with sites, and a location of each site; enumerating one or more path solutions along the supply ...