US Patent Issued to LIVEU on June 9 for "Application-agnostic puncturing of network address translation (NAT) services" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,265, issued on June 9, was assigned to LIVEU LTD. (Kfar Saba, Israel).

"Application-agnostic puncturing of network address translation (NAT) services" was invented by Assaf Inbal (Tzur Yitzhak, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Two electronic devices attempt to communicate and exchange Internet Protocol (IP) packets over a cellular communication network, and at least one of the two devices is behind a symmetric Network Address Translation (NAT) service. At least one of the two devices executes a Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) protocol, which provides to that device a pair of external IP address and port of that device;...