ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,861, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Microservice point-of-use interface for an information handling system" was invented by Maxwell S. Andrews (Kennett Square, Pa.) and Robert C. Hernandez (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system may host a single, common interface through which users may browse, select, purchase, and use software services offered on more than one cloud computing platform. An information handling system configured as such may receive a user request to perform an action; determine a list of software functions configured to perform that ...