ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,451, issued on April 15, was assigned to Omnissa LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Dynamic GPU-enabled virtual machine provisioning across cloud providers" was invented by Sam Zhao (Beijing), Bomin Nie (Beijing), Nan Wang (Beijing), Jingtao Zhang (Beijing) and Zhifu Jin (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of provisioning virtual machines (VMs) includes: providing a VM pool that includes a graphics processing unit (GPU)-optimized VM and a non-GPU-optimized VM operating in different clouds. A control plane can receive an indication that a user has submitted a workload request, determine whether a GPU-optimized VM is available a...