ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,060, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Machine learning based expense report anomaly detection" was invented by Akash Baviskar (Maharashtra, India) and Krishnan Ramanathan (Varthur Hobli, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments perform the anomaly detection of expense reports in response to receiving an expense report as input data, the expense report including a plurality of expenses. Embodiments create a plurality of groups of expenses, each group corresponding to a different combination of a category of the expense, a location of the expense and a season of the expens...