ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,041, issued on June 2, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for rendering and encoding content for online interactive sessions" was invented by Clinton Smullen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dov Zimring (Belmont, Calif.), Jani Huoponen (Los Gatos, Calif.), Aki Kuusela (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jean-Francois Roy (San Francisco), Paul Lalonde (Kitchener, Canada) and Paul Leventis (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to a method of managing processing capability of a server system having one or more processing cores that further include multiple processing slices. Upon receiving reques...