ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,519, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to BRIGHT DATA LTD. (Netanya, Israel).

"System and method for improving internet communication by using intermediate nodes" was invented by Derry Shribman (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ofer Vilenski (Moshav Hadar Am, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The client device accesses an acceleration server to receive a list of available tunnel devices. The requested content is partitioned into slices, and the client device sends a request for the slices to the available tu...