ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,167, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method for dynamic rule-based recommendation validation" was invented by Nicholas A. Noto (Saratoga, Calif.), Nitin Madan (Cupertino, Calif.), Jingwen Zhang (Milpitas, Calif.), Sriranjani Vaidyanathan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ishan Khaparde (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamic rule-based recommendations are disclosed. A rule-base, which includes rules, is received for a data-related operation. Potential targets of the data-related operation are validated against the rule-base. Targets that are eligible or validated using the rule-base ma...