ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,082, issued on March 4, was assigned to PredictAP Inc. (Chestnut Hill, Mass.).

"Invoice processing platform" was invented by David Stifter (Lincoln, Mass.), Christopher Antenesse (Austin, Texas), Nicholas Gerakines (Centreville, Ohio) and Eric A. Hsiao (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An invoice processing system is proved. The system includes a database and a server in electronic communication with the database. The server is operative to: interpret an invoice; interpret historical data from the database, the historical data corresponding to at least one of one or more vendors of past invoices or one or more payors of past inv...