US Patent Issued to Coupa Software on July 29 for "Category classification of records of e-procurement transactions" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,790, issued on July 29, was assigned to Coupa Software Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Category classification of records of e-procurement transactions" was invented by Kiran Ratnapu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ankit Narang (Pune, India), Hari Teja Murakonda (Dublin, Calif.), Yutaka Hosoai (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Brent Sisson (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Commodity category values can be determined automatically for suppliers in an e-procurement system using a computer-implemented process that is supplier-focused and uses successive heuristics, supplemented with machine learning models that predict category and subca...