ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,781, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Omnissa LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Unified workspace for thin, remote, and SAAS applications" was invented by William Pugh (Seattle), Michael Eakes (San Francisco), Ojvind Bernander (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Pradyumna Gundavaram (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Application-manager software authenticates a user of a client device over a channel. The authentication operation is performed using a directory service. The application-manager software presents a plurality of applications in a GUI displayed by the client device. The plurality of applications depends on the authenticatio...