ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,233, issued on June 9, was assigned to Coupa Software Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Database record similarity matching" was invented by Daniel Benson (San Clemente, Calif.), Mochen Liu (San Francisco), Alison Guilbeaux-Brown (Atlanta) and Doug Benson (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method can access an expense line for a travel expense for an enterprise. The expense line is the subject of a procurement action under a relevant contract. The method can use a first machine learning model, determining a category associated with the expense line. The method can evaluate the expense line using the cat...