ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,199, issued on March 11, was assigned to 360 IT, UAB (Vilnius, Lithuania).
"Enhanced privacy preserving access to a VPN service" was invented by Povilas Nagrockas (Kaunas, Lithuania) and Emanuelis Norbutas (Vilnius, Lithuania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request is received from a user device to establish a VPN tunnel. The VPN tunnel is established with a first private IP address of the VPN concentrator and a second private IP address of the user device as endpoints. An outbound packet for transmission to a target is received from the user device. A third private IP address associated with the tunnel is looked up based on a VPN ...