US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on June 3 for "Providing host media processing functionality to a guest operating system" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,767, issued on June 3, 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 (Bellevue, Wash.), Kumar Rajeev (Redmond, Wash.), Isha Sharma (Bellevue, Wash.), Glenn Frederick Evans (Redmond, Wash.) and Matthew R. Wozniak (Bellevue, 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 media processing component configured on a host OS. The guest OS provides, vi...