US Patent Issued to Avalara on April 7 for "Assembling parameters to compute taxes for cross-border sales" (Washington, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,079, issued on April 7, was assigned to Avalara Inc. (Seattle).

"Assembling parameters to compute taxes for cross-border sales" was invented by Amy E. Morgan (Seattle), Duncan K. Carey (Seattle), Kevin James Hess (Hillsborough, N.C.), Aaron David Wilson (Kenmore, Wash.), Mark Wilhelm (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Naveen K. Agrawal (Bellevue, Wash.), Mark Alan Withers (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) and David Kempe (Auburn, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may learn what parameters are required for an item in order to compute tax for the item based on preliminary data regarding the item and/or the transaction. The system may det...