ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,311, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Coupa Software Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for automatically recommending account codes" was invented by Hongyang Yu (Sydney), Sandip Mandlecha (Pune, India), Tim Durkin (Daly City, Calif.), Neha Arora (San Mateo, Calif.), Rebecca Mengell (Dublin, Calif.), Shashank Dass (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Keeyoung Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method comprising receiving invoice data comprising at least one of invoice descriptions and invoice characters from user computers, each of the invoice descriptions and invoice characters defines...