ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,320, issued on July 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Task scheduling method and apparatus" was invented by Hailiang Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When scheduling a task to be executed by a target virtual machine, a scheduler first obtains at least one top-priority task in a to-be-executed task queue of the first target virtual machine to first ensure that the top-priority task is preferentially executed, determines a first task with a minimum virtual runtime from the at least one top-priority task, and controls the target virtual machine to execute the first task. This ensure...