ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,979, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques for configuring a processor to function as multiple, separate processors in a virtualized environment" was invented by Jerome F. Duluk Jr. (Palo Alto, Calif.), Gregory Scott Palmer (Cedar Park, Texas), Jonathon Stuart Ramsay Evans (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shailendra Singh (Fremont, Calif.), Samuel H. Duncan (Arlington, Mass.), Wishwesh Anil Gandhi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lacky V. Shah (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Sonata Gale Wen (San Jose, Calif.), Feiqi Su (Cupertino, Calif.), James Leroy Deming (Madison, Ala.), Alan Menezes (San Jose, Calif.), Pranav Vaidya (San Jose, Calif.), Praveen Joginipally (S...