ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,636, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Parallels International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Portable application based virtualization" was invented by Andrey Stupachenko (Moscow).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Virtualization exploits virtual rather than actual elements such as computer hardware platforms, storage devices, and computer network resources for example. However, prior art techniques have limitations including, for example, memory requirements and resource requirements which typically either limit their deployment to remote server based systems or limit the number of concurrent virtual machines a system can support. ...