ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,387, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KPMG International Services Ltd. (London).

"Intelligent transaction analytics" was invented by Santosh Kumar Kulkarni (Atlanta), Michael Woodford (Philadelphia), Kallol K Ghosh (Atlanta) and Scott Asher (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods disclosed herein provide for classification of business transactions. A client device runs an application that receives identification of a dataset for use in a classification analysis, where the dataset including a plurality of transactions. The application then receives user inputs to create a new analysis and runs a classification ...