ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,142, issued on July 21, was assigned to NEXT SILICON LTD. (Givatayim, Israel).

"System and method of data tunneling between a source device and a sink device" was invented by Daniel Greenspan (Jerusalem), Nemanja Kondic (Petrovaradin, Serbia), Oren Nishry (Beit Lehem HaGlilit, Israel) and Roee Barak (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of managing data communication over platform-level interconnect protocols may include receiving first and second requests from a source device, each optionally querying data from a destination device, encapsulating the requests as payload and tunnelling them as respectiv...