ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,786, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Coupa Software Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"De-duplicating transaction records using targeted fuzzy matching" was invented by Jyotirmaya Mahanta (Pune, India), Ankit Narang (Pune, India), Shoan Jain (Berkeley, Calif.) and Prasanna Kumar (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a candidate pair of a plurality of digitally stored documents from a document database. The method automatically computes relative positional differences between each digitally stored document of the candidate pair. The method compares the r...