ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,312, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for prioritizing orders" was invented by Satyam Sheshansh (Bangalore, India), Dhiraj Balakrishnan (Chennai, India), Balaji Singh Mahendranath Singh (Chennai, India) and Durga Ram Singh Bondili (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an example methodology implementing the disclosed techniques includes, by an order prioritization service, receiving information regarding orders that need to be fulfilled and determining, for each one of the orders, one or more relevant features from the information regarding the order...