US Patent Issued to L3Harris Global Communications on June 9 for "Systems and methods for automatic tunnel establishment with address deconfliction" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,193, issued on June 9, was assigned to L3Harris Global Communications Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for automatic tunnel establishment with address deconfliction" was invented by Nelson Henry Powell III (Penfield, N.Y.) and Benjamin Thomas LaGreca (Lockport, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically managing tunnels in a network. The methods comprise: detecting, by a router of the network, that a tunnel is needed for communicating a packet to at least one member of a multicast group of another network; selecting, by the router, a base address from a set of unused base addresses; communica...