ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,090, issued on March 11, was assigned to BRIGHT DATA LTD. (Netanya, Israel).

"System and method for improving content fetching by selecting tunnel devices" was invented by Derry Shribman (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ofer Vilenski (Moshav Hadar Am, Ill.).

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 tunnel device is selected based on an attribute, such as IP Geolocation. A tunnel bank server stores a list of available tunnels that may be used, associated with values of various attribute types. The tunnel devices init...