ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,046, issued on May 13, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Paginated listing with partial pages" was invented by John Abercrombie (Seattle), Brandon Tarquinio (Seattle) and Micah Priddis (Silverdale, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can receive a first request to list elements of a storage system that satisfy a search criterion. The system can determine to respond to the first request with a first page of results. The system can perform an iteration of identifying a group of results of the elements that satisfy the search criterion, wherein a number of results in the group of results is less than the l...