ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,494, issued on June 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Decision management for items digitally represented in an information processing system" was invented by Rohit Gosain (Bangalore, India), Bhanu Murthy Modali (Hyderabad, India) and Shibi Panikkar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decision management technique comprises obtaining, for a set of items, data indicative of a previous percentage division between a first item type and a second item type for each item in the set of items. The technique further comprises classifying each item in the set of items into one of a plurality of clusters,...