ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,521, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Routing network traffic using router-terminated virtual private network (VPN) client sessions" was invented by Ethan Wright (Denver), Wystan Schmidt (Denver) and Micah Labbee (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Routing network traffic using router-terminated virtual private network (VPN) client sessions is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a router computing device receives an indication of an association between a client computing device and VPN configuration data for a VPN, the indication comprising an identifier of the client co...