ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,679, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Pismo Labs Technology Ltd. (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"System and method for controlling network device(s) at a primary network device" was invented by Cheuk Pang Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Alex Wing Hong Chan (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Yu Yeung (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This present invention discloses methods and systems for transmitting data packets over a wide area network (WAN) through secondary network devices connected to a primary network device. The primary network device first takes control of the secondary network devices' network settings. Then, it creates two separa...