ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,578, issued on July 1, was assigned to OPEN TEXT Corp. (Waterloo, Canada).

"System and method for launching and connecting to a local server from a webpage" was invented by Russell George Teglas (Arlington, Mass.) and Samir Yasin Vaidya (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising a processor and a computer readable memory coupled to the processor, the computer readable memory configured with a page processable by page processing code. The page can be configured to generate a set of random connection data usable by a local server program instance to verify that a connection request is from the page, launch the ...