ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,958, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sage Global Services Ltd. (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Great Britain).

"Generating customer-specific accounting rules" was invented by William August Hoiles (West Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for identifying potentially erroneous transactions. A hardware processing device may receive user data indicative of historical actions taken by a user relative to transactions, automatically process the user data to generate a plurality of rules, and automatically apply the rules to a transaction to determine that the transaction...