ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,131, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Netflix Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Graphics processing architecture in a cloud gaming environment" was invented by Gregoire Pean (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method includes instantiating a simulated library in a shared memory that is shared between a plurality of hardware components in a graphics processing unit (GPU), diverting media frame generation input events produced as part of a multimedia application to the simulated library in the shared memory, selecting at least one media frame for rendering, according to the media frame generation...