ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,500, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Outward Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Delivering virtualized content" was invented by Clarence Chui (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for delivering virtualized content are disclosed. In some embodiments, elements in source content are mapped to a set of corresponding database objects, and the set of database objects is modified to generate a virtualized version of the source content. A specification of the virtualized version of the source content is provided to an output device in response to a request from the output device for the source content."

The patent wa...