ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,514, issued on March 24, was assigned to ReadyLinks Inc. (Chanhassen, Minn.).

"Routing packet to TCP tunnel client program" was invented by Alec R. Synstelien (Chanhassen, Minn.), Justin L. Synstelien (Chanhassen, Minn.), Brady M. Synstelien (Chanhassen, Minn.), Garrett D. Synstelien (Chanhassen, Minn.) and Larry D. Synstelien (Chanhassen, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for cloud-based control of network devices is provided. An encrypted connection is established by a network access device with a host using a transmission control protocol (TCP). The network access device determines that a packet to be trans...