ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,878, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Application assistant for managing application programs in an information processing system" was invented by Shibi Panikkar (Bangalore, India) and Chakradhar Kommana (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Application program management techniques in an information processing system environment are disclosed. For example, a method comprises assessing an issue with an execution of a first application, by a second application, wherein the second application operates in association with the first application and comprises a reduced code set of the first app...