Company patents

Coupa Software Incorporated

Coupa Software Incorporated's patent strategy is heavily concentrated in Business Methods & Fintech, accounting for 73.8% of its total portfolio, which is expected given its core business. However, it's surprising to see a significant decline in patenting across nearly all categories in 2025 and so far in 2026, including a -19.2% YoY drop in Business Methods & Fintech in 2025 and a sharp -92.3% YoY decline in Databases & Information Retrieval in 2026, suggesting a potential shift in its innovation focus or a slowdown in patenting activity.

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Yearly patent publications since 2023

Product themes

Product-level themes inferred from filings since 2023, with category chips showing where each theme appears. Select a theme to filter the patents below.

103 US filings (since 2023) · 12 categories · 12 themes

Automated Transaction Systems

Systems designed to streamline and automate various commercial transactions, including mobile-enhanced processes, secure online checkouts, customer service interactions, and privilege issuance, often leveraging digital authentication.

Business Methods & Fintech
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28since 2023
-30.0%YoY
Intelligent Decision Support

Systems that process data to provide personalized recommendations, predict events, or automate decision-making processes based on learned patterns, user behavior, or environmental factors.

Databases & Information Retrieval
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24since 2023
+16.7%YoY
Personalized Recommendations

Systems that use user data, preferences, and machine learning to generate tailored advice, product recommendations, goal-setting plans, or contextual information for individuals across different domains.

Business Methods & Fintech
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12since 2023
-60.0%YoY
Document & Information Extraction

Methods and systems for identifying, extracting, and structuring specific entities, relationships, or insights from text-based documents, often involving techniques like named entity recognition, relation extraction, or summarization.

Natural Language Processing
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9since 2023
-33.3%YoY
ML-driven Decision Support

Application of machine learning models to process complex data and generate actionable insights, predictions, or classifications that inform or automate decision-making processes in various domains like healthcare, business, or industrial control.

Pattern Recognition & ML Models
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9since 2023
-60.0%YoY
Predictive System Health

Techniques for monitoring system components and behaviors to anticipate failures, performance degradation, or anomalies, often leveraging machine learning for pattern recognition and forecasting.

System Reliability & Diagnostics
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6since 2023
-50.0%YoY
System Resource & Power Optimization

Methods and systems for efficiently allocating computing resources, balancing workloads, and managing power states to improve performance, reduce energy consumption, or enhance reliability in computing platforms.

Operating Systems & Program Control
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4since 2023
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Access Control & Identity Management

Systems and methods for authenticating users, devices, or applications, authorizing their access to resources based on policies, and managing digital identities across various platforms.

Computer Security
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2since 2023
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Specialized Data Integration

Methods and systems for integrating, transforming, and managing complex or domain-specific data from disparate sources into a unified structure, often for specific applications like social networks, genomics, or business forms.

Databases & Information Retrieval
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2since 2023
n/a
Secure Data Sharing & Rights Management

Mechanisms to facilitate the secure exchange of data between different entities or systems while enforcing usage policies, managing digital content rights, and ensuring data consistency during replication or transfer.

Computer Security
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2since 2023
n/a
Digital Asset Management

Technologies for securing, managing, and transacting with virtual currencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and other blockchain-based digital assets, including hardware wallets and tokenization schemes for various purposes.

Business Methods & Fintech
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1since 2023
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Wearable & Mobile Interaction

Designing user interfaces and interaction methods specifically for mobile or wearable devices, enabling control of external systems, monitoring user states, or facilitating real-world transactions.

Input/Output & User Interfaces
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1since 2023
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Patents

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US 12481936 B1GRANTED
G06Q10/047

Supply chain route modeling with unmanned aerial vehicle segments

Filed:2023-09-19Pub:2025-11-25
Applicant:COUPA SOFTWARE INCORPORATED

In an embodiment, a system disclosed herein receives input information relating to an unmanned aerial vehicle, ground delivery assets, and user preferences or configurations for delivery routes. The system processes the inputted information and determines an optimized delivery route that utilizes the unmanned aerial vehicle and the ground delivery assets. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method, comprises accessing a drone definition table and a drone assignment table of a database system; accessing digitally stored delivery route data specifying a plurality of nodes connected by edges, the nodes being ordered from a starting point to a last node, wherein each of the nodes represents a delivery location, wherein each of the nodes comprises a service attribute specifying ground-only delivery or ground/drone delivery; selecting, from the delivery route data, a particular node having the service attribute specifying ground/drone delivery and that is next in order with respect to the starting point; removing the particular node from the delivery route data; determining a drone flight time associated with a distance, from a preceding node to a subsequent node, with respect to the particular node; based on the drone definition table and the drone assignment table, determining whether the drone flight time exceeds a maximum drone flight time of a particular drone; in response to determining that the drone flight time exceeds the maximum drone flight time, restoring the particular node in the delivery route data; and, otherwise, writing, to one or more sortie tables in the database, one or more sortie records corresponding to a sortie of the particular drone that can occur between the preceding node and the subsequent node; repeating the selecting, removing, determining, restoring, and writing steps for a plurality of other particular nodes in the delivery route data having the service attribute specifying ground/drone delivery.

US 12462311 B2GRANTED
G06Q40/12

Systems and methods for automatically recommending account codes

Filed:2022-11-29Pub:2025-11-04
Applicant:COUPA SOFTWARE INCORPORATED

A computer implemented method comprising receiving invoice data comprising at least one of invoice descriptions and invoice characters from user computers, each of the invoice descriptions and invoice characters defines contexts and patterns, wherein each of the invoice data comprising a supplier-customer information that corresponds to a supplier-customer transaction; analyzing the at least one of the invoice descriptions and the invoice characters with corresponding contexts and patterns; determining that amount of the invoice characters is more than a threshold number of characters, for performing: matching invoice data, invoice characters with predefined historical invoice data that corresponds to the same supplier-customer information; computing a similarity score for each of the invoice data; and displaying recommendations including first account codes to map the one or more first account codes to each of the one or more invoice data based on the similarity score; determining that amount of the invoice characters is not more than the threshold number of characters, for performing: filtering the invoice descriptions of the invoice data based on predetermined constraints to extract filtered invoice data comprising filtered description lines; identifying categories associated with each of the filtered description lines of the filtered invoice data; matching each of the identified categories, including corresponding contexts and patterns that is associated with a supplier-customer information with one or more predefined historical categories associated with predefined invoice description of the one or more predefined historical invoice data that corresponds to the same supplier-customer information, wherein each of the contexts and the patterns are matched with predefined contexts and patterns of the predefined historical invoice data that corresponds to the same supplier-customer information; computing a categorical similarity score for each of the categories associated with the supplier-customer information; and displaying on the graphical user interface, second recommendations including second account codes based on the computed categorical similarity score of each of the categories to map the second account codes to the invoice data.