ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,812, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Identifying computing products from a search query" was invented by Brennan Troy Robert Seal (Austin, Texas), Chris Everett Peterson (Austin, Texas), Nicholas Anthony Esposito (Round Rock, Texas), Rachel Gabrielle Mazzini (Dallas), Sandeep Bola Ratnakar (Bangalore, India) and Siddharth Sreekumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of identifying computing products from a search query, including receiving a search query including a word string; analyzing the search query to determine that the word string does not refer to a particular ...