ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,320, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Delivering applications via an on-demand virtual machine system based on custom package repository" was invented by Ankur Mukherjee (Pune, India), Vijay Kumar (Pune, India), Rudi Olufsen (Lysaker, Norway), Endri Hysenaj (Lysaker, Norway), Haakon Zahl (Lysaker, Norway), Truls Arnegaard (Lysaker, Norway), Jagdish Idhate (Pune, India), Morten Brun (Lysaker, Norway), Alessandro Bottoni (Montpellier, France), Bjorn Nordmoen (Lysaker, Norway) and David Parker (Tananger, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computing systems, and computer...