ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,716, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Internet protocol (IP) tunnel for cloud-based applications on streaming devices" was invented by QingYun Wei (San Jose, Calif.), Sankaranarayanan Mahadevan (Chennai, India), Jin Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Avinash Joshi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies directed to Internet Protocol (IP) tunnels for cloud-based applications on a streaming device are described. One method receives a request to execute a streaming application hosted by the remote computing device. The method establishes a first IP tunnel with the remote computing de...