ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,742, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Multimedia content access within remove desktop session" was invented by Irwan Halim (Spring, Texas) and Daniel Bungert (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote desktop session is established between a remote desktop host device and a remote desktop client device to permit remote usage of the remote desktop host device at the remote desktop client device. The remote desktop host device detects access of multimedia content at the remote desktop host device by the remote desktop client device within the remote desktop session...