ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,759, issued on May 27, was assigned to Parallels International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Timer object management for a multiprocessor virtual environment" was invented by Maxim Davgalev (Bellevue, Wash.), Nikolay Dobrovolskiy (Moscow) and Serguei M. Beloussov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new timer object that is associated with a timer event may be identified. A virtual processor that is to be provided the timer event that is associated with the new timer object may be determined. One or more current timer objects that are associated with one or more timer events provided to the virtual processor may also be i...