US Patent Issued on Dec. 16 for "Port-to-port tunnel creation for secure remote access to networked devices" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,864, issued on Dec. 16.

"Port-to-port tunnel creation for secure remote access to networked devices" was invented by Vikram Hegde (Prospect Heights, Ill.), Avinash Kumar (Sahibganj, India) and Nikhil Adiga (Mangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access control device monitors devices on a local area network and transmits alerts to a premises operator upon detection of any failures based on monitored operational data. The access control device transmits alerts to relevant device maintenance vendors regarding failures. Vendor alerts may be automatic or may be instigated by the premises operator. The vendor may be provided t...