ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,055, issued on May 6.

"Application publishing in a virtualized environment" was invented by Yedong Yu (Nanjing, China) and Yajun Yao (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for application publishing in a virtualized environment are described herein. A system may facilitate publishing of one or more shortcuts based on inputs made in the virtual desktop environment (e. g., when a user "drag-and-drops" a shortcut onto a publishing icon on a desktop). The system may determine application information and instance information for the application, and may publish a shortcut for that application to the storefront....