ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,540, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CONNECTIFY INC. (Philadelphia).

"Providing multiple TCP connections between a client and server" was invented by Kevin Cunningham (Swarthmore, Pa.), Harry Volek (Philadelphia), Brian Prodoehl (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.) and Alexander Gizis (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example may include a process that includes establishing a connection between a client device and a server, monitoring communication over the connection to identify whether there is a communication delay based on one or more communication thresholds, establishing another connection between the client device and the...