ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,500, issued on May 12, was assigned to PERFTECH INC. (San Antonio).

"Providing remote access to an internet-connected device" was invented by Lewis T. Donzis (San Antonio) and Lee Carl Ziegenhals (Boerne, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of establishing a connection with a local area network (LAN) network via a routing apparatus comprising a plurality of network connection ports, receiving a packet via a network connection port from among the plurality of network connections ports, detecting that the packet is of a new virtual local area network (VLAN), and automatically configuring a V...