ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,435, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Providing customized services to users of data processing systems" was invented by Tsehsin Jason Liu (Wellesley, Mass.), Amihai Savir (Newton, Mass.) and Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing customized services to users of data processing systems are disclosed. To provide the customized services, a query may be obtained from a user. Contextual information for the query may be attempted to be obtained from a first data source associated with the user. If at least a first portion of the context...