ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,335, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system peripheral text-to- speech solution with automatic volume attenuation" was invented by Ghee Beng Ooi (Singapore), Jin Shiong Koh (Singapore) and Hsing-Hsien Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accessibility device interfaces with a display through a cable to accept display onscreen menu items for presentation as speech from the accessibility device. For instance, a scalar of the display detects an interface with an external accessibility device and an end user interaction with an onscreen display and, in resp...