ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,471, issued on May 13, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Virtualizing hardware components that implement AI applications" was invented by Qi Liu (Beijing), Xiangjun Song (Beijing), Jin He (Beijing), Xiangdong Che (Beijing), Bing Niu (Beijing) and Sheng Fang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing environment can include a host system that maintains a guest system, and a hardware component configured to implement artificial intelligence ("AI") methods of processing and analyzing date. The guest system can provide a virtual computing environment that receives a request to implement an AI application, and util...