ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,457, issued on July 15, was assigned to KPMG LLP (New York).

"System and method for implementing a commercial leakage platform" was invented by Rachel Wagner-Kaiser (Seattle), Dylan Kab (Cary, N.C.), James Gardner (Long Beach, Calif.), Martin Kaestner (Bethesda, Md.), John Hyung Lee (New York), David Scripka (Atlanta), Ryan Christopher Soileau (Houston), Gregory Alexander Vorsanger (Dresher, Pa.) and Chenming Xue (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to computer-implemented systems and methods for identifying and further preventing commercial or contract leakage across multiple different procurement rel...