ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,699, issued on April 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Conversion of messages into audio format" was invented by Vivek Bhargava (Bangalore, India), Vaideeswaran Ganesan (Bengaluru, India) and Rishav Sethia (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to obtain one or more messages, the one or more messages being associated with management of a given one of one or more information technology assets in an information technology infrastructure, and to determine, based at least in part on content of a given one of the one or more messages, whether the given...