ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,713, issued on May 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Non-disruptive hibernating and resuming guest environment using network virtual service client" was invented by Jie Zhou (Kirkland, Wash.), Dmitry Malloy (Redmond, Wash.), Khoa A. To (Redmond, Wash.) and Omar Cardona (Bellvue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for non-disruptively hibernating and resuming a guest environment using a network virtual service client. In examples, when a guest environment is hibernated, a network virtual service client provides an instruction to a ...