ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,854, issued on June 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Artificial emotional intelligence for influencing information handling system (IHS) performance" was invented by Jimmy L. Griffith (Pflugerville, Texas), Walter Kemp (Georgetown, Texas) and Kai Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for artificial emotional intelligence for influencing Information Handling System (IHS) performance. In some embodiments, an IHS may include a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the processor to: identify ...