ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,936, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CLOUDFLARE INC. (San Francisco).

"Application remoting across a network using draw commands" was invented by Darren Remington (Mesa, Ariz.), Trevor Sundberg (Kirkland, Wash.), Killian Koenig (Seattle), Benjamin Buzbee (Woodinville, Wash.), Michael Conrad (Monroe, Wash.) and David Harnett (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server receives from a client device that is executing a client application a request to initiate a remote application in the server. The server instantiates an instance of the remote application. The server intercepts draw commands associated with the remote applicatio...