US Patent Issued to Avalara on Aug. 25 for "Automated actions for facilitating transactions" (North Carolina, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,253, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Avalara Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated actions for facilitating transactions" was invented by Andrew Brandon Chan (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Kathryn Rust (Durham, N.C.) and Jeffrey Carroll (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods enable automated compliance verifications against regulatory and licensing requirements so sellers can determine whether they can sell to a given destination and which goods and services they can sell to that destination. The system increases efficiency of automated computerized systems that facilitate transactions by enabling users and systems to auto-...