ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,954, issued on July 1, was assigned to Versata Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Flexible and integrated electronic processing of different invoice categories" was invented by Timothy S. McEneny (Colts Neck, N.J.), Erick W. Schulz (South Belmar, N.J.), Joseph E. Fallon (Liverpool, N.Y.), Aleksandr Shmulker (Manalapan, N.J.) and Rita J. Carol (Aberdeen, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic invoicing system includes an integrated method of searching both purchase order based electronic invoices and electronic invoices not associated with a purchase order or transaction receipt. A portal is provided. The portal has respective views for...