ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,654, issued on May 12.

"Virtual desktop screen sharing with multiple sharers in a collaboration session" was invented by Kai Cui (Jiang Su, China), Yuan Zhang (Jiang Su, China), Muhammad Dawood (High Wycombe, Great Britain) and Zhen Fan (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system includes a virtual server providing first and second virtual desktops. A first client computing device accesses the first virtual desktop via a communications network, and shares content of the first virtual desktop as a screen sharer in a collaboration session. A second client computing device accesses the second virtual desktop via the...