ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,386, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

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

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 sufficient co...