ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,579, issued on Feb. 17.

"Using a websocket connection to send messages from an off-premises node to an on-premises node" was invented by Alexandru Cozma (Bucharest, Romania) and Jeffery J Van Heuklon (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes establishing a WebSocket connection between an on-premises WebSocket application hosted on a first on-premises compute node and an off-premises WebSocket application hosted on a first off-premises compute node, wherein the first on-premises compute node is in an on-premises network having a firewall that prevents the first off-premises compute node from initiating a conne...