ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,169, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Message parsing to determine cross-application dependencies among actions from different applications" 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 messages associated with actions taken in applications running on at least one information technology asset in an information technology infrastructure, and to parse the messages to create message records, a given message record associat...