US Patent Issued to Snap One on March 11 for "Systems and methods for control channel tunneling" (Utah, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,098, issued on March 11, was assigned to Snap One LLC (Lehi, Utah).

"Systems and methods for control channel tunneling" was invented by James Loren Sparkman III (South Jordan, Utah) and Robert Joshua Walker (Fort Mill, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for communicating between a first network and a second network is described. The method includes receiving, by a network device via a persistent control channel established between the network device and a server device connected to a first network, a first message that includes: (1) information indicating a tunneling protocol, and (2) information associated with a first tu...