ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,601, issued on June 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Display virtualization" was invented by David Cowperthwaite (Portland, Ore.), David Puffer (Tempe, Ariz.), Ankur Shah (Folsom, Calif.), Alan Previn Teres Alexis (Folsom, Calif.) and Satyeshwar Singh (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a partitional graphics processor including a display controller including hardware display virtualization. One embodiment provides a graphics processor comprising a system interface including a first virtual interface and a second virtual interface, a render engine to perform graphics rendering ope...