ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,976, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for fast start of applications in a cloud computing environment" was invented by Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.) and Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application likely to be accessed at an edge of the cloud computing environment is identified. The identified application is preemptively launched and then placed in a memory-resident state. When a request from a user to access the application is received, the application is brought out of the memory-resident state into an active state and parameters associ...