US Patent Issued to Coupa Software on June 17 for "Community influenced approval cycle times in a software-as-a-service system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,552, issued on June 17, was assigned to Coupa Software Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Community influenced approval cycle times in a software-as-a-service system" was invented by Ahmad Sadeddin (San Francisco), Vincent Toesca (San Francisco) and Kira Letskina (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for improving spend approval cycle time in a software-as-service (SasS) electronic spend management system based on community spend approval information. The techniques include the spend management system collecting information about spend approval cycle times across a community of users that use the system....