ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,039, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Omnissa LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"On-demand remote applications" was invented by Jeffrey Paul Ulatoski (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jairam Choudhary (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for delivering remote applications to servers in an on-demand fashion (i.e., as end-users need them) are provided. In one set of embodiments, these techniques include packaging the installed contents (e.g., executable code and configuration data) of the remote applications into containers, referred to as application packages, that are placed on shared storage and dynamically attaching (i.e...