ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,586, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to STRIPE INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Bots for accounting" was invented by Xin Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Sreekanth Pothula (Collierville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for generating processes or bots for automatically processing accounting data. Some aspects of embodiments relate to defining templates specifying actions to be performed on a periodic basis (e.g., hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly). In some embodiments, the templates further include template queries for querying data stores or other data sources (e.g., ...