ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,525, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing continuation of anonymous guest sessions" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Pankaj Pande (Carlingford, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing sessions between guests and computer implemented services are disclosed. Upon initiating a session, it may be determined whether a guest wishes to remain anonymous during the session. If the guest wishes to remain anonymous and wishes for the anonymous session to be able to be continued, a session tracking token may be issued to the guest. Context infor...