ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,067, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Coupa Software Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"System and method of setting a configuration to achieve an outcome" was invented by Donna Wilczek (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for improving performance of a computer procurement application includes using a procurement control system computer that is communicatively connected to a plurality of client computers, retrieving attribute values of one or more entities, forming a set of matching entity records, and determining peer group data of a peer group from each set of matching entity records corresponding to the one or m...