ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,077, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generation of virtualized shared tab for screen sharing" was invented by Su Liu (Austin, Texas), Luis Osvaldo Pizana (Austin, Texas), Jun Su (Beijing) and Jeremy R. Fox (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to share an object is received within a virtualized screen sharing management application. A virtualized display for sharing the object is generated. The object is mapped to the virtualized display. Responsive to the request, the object is shared within the virtualized screen sharing management application via the virtu...