ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,846, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Pismo Labs Technology Ltd. (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Methods and systems for transmitting session-based packets" was invented by Patrick Ho Wai Sung (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Wan Chun Leung (New Territories, Hong Kong), Kam Chiu Ng (New Territories, Hong Kong) and Chun Kit Chan (New Territories, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses methods and systems for sending and receiving IP packets between network nodes through a tunnel. The tunnel is created according to a session. When the IP packet is a first of the IP packets in sequence of a session, establish a tunnel and ...