ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,857, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Automated garbage collection based on contextual analysis driven by NLP audio" was invented by Prem Pradeep Motgi (Austin, Texas), Dharmesh M. Patel (Round Rock, Texas) and Manpreet Singh Sokhi (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for providing computer implemented services are disclosed. To provide the computer implemented services, a storage space in a data management system may be managed. To manage the storage system, data may be obtained for storage. The data may be classified as being related to at least o...