ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,150, issued on July 29, was assigned to Omnissa LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Secure printing in a virtualized computing environment" was invented by Hui Yuan (Beijing), Kun Shi (Beijing), Zhiyu Li (Beijing) and Hui Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Secure printing may be performed in a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) in a virtualized computing environment. When a file is selected for secure printing, print data for the file is stored, and a corresponding entry is created in a metadata map. A message is sent to a user device to inform a user that the file is available for secure printing. The message may include a un...