ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,790, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"VPN manager and monitor for VPN connection selection" was invented by Marc E. Jasner (Horsham, Pa.) and John D. Ogden (Media, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dependence on Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections to a target source continues to increase along with the need for improved connection reliability and speed. A VPN manager provides an automatic or seamless switching of the routing of data or traffic directed to an initial VPN connection associated with an initial VPN gateway at the target source to a different VPN connection associated with a...