ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,063, issued on May 20, was assigned to NetScout Systems Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for remote synthetic transactions via a tunnel to distributed agents" was invented by Andrew Burghes (Silchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for remote synthetic transactions is provided. A system may create a tunnel between the system and a device to perform remote synthetic transactions. The system may be at a location other than a location of the device and remotely transfer data packets to the device to be sent to a service of a service provider via a network. The data packets may appear to or...