ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,459, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Parallels International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Emulation pipeline selection and emulation pipeline parameter prediction" was invented by Evgeny Nikitenko (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Incompatible graphics frameworks present a barrier to emulating applications of one operating system (guest OS) upon a computer system employing a different operating system (host OS) such as occurs with virtual machines. Accordingly, in order to address limitations of emulating guest OS graphic pipelines upon the host OS the inventors have established methodologies for cross-platform graphics...