ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,898, issued on July 8, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Providing host media processing functionality to a guest operating system" was invented by Anton Victor Polinger (Redmond, Wash.), Marcin Stankiewicz (Redmond, Wash.), Isuru Chamara Pathirana (New York), Glenn Frederick Evans (Redmond, Wash.), Matthew R. Wozniak (Bellevue, Wash.), Sang Choe (Redmond, Wash.), Jitesh Krishnan (Woodinville, Wash.) and Naveen Thumpudi (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques disclosed herein enable a guest operating system (OS) to access and use a color space conversion component on a host O...