ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,819, issued on March 25, was assigned to Lantronix Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Bridging with web manager access" was invented by Steve Cook (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device providing access to an external device by configuring the network device to control the flow of traffic from the external device to the network device. The flow control may include retrieving an IP address or port number from a bridged device and applying it to a stack stored in the memory of the network device so that the bridged device and network device share the same IP address."
The patent was filed on July 14, 2021, under Applica...