ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,466, issued on May 13.

"Systems and methods for managing streams of packets via intermediary devices" was invented by Georgy Momchilov (Parkland, Fla.), Derek Thorslund (San Jose, Calif.), Daljit Singh (San Jose, Calif.) and Vladimir Vysotsky (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Virtual application and desktop delivery may be optimized by supplying application metadata and user intent to the device between a client and a server hosting resources for the delivery. The data packets used to deliver the virtual application or desktop may be also tagged with references to the application. By supplying the metadata and tagging p...