US Patent Issued to CLOUDFLARE on June 10 for "Virtual private network (VPN) whose traffic is intelligently routed" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,357, issued on June 10, was assigned to CLOUDFLARE INC. (San Francisco).

"Virtual private network (VPN) whose traffic is intelligently routed" was invented by Christopher Philip Branch (Romford, Great Britain), Naga Sunil Tripirineni (San Jose, Calif.), Rustam Xing Lalkaka (San Francisco), Nick Wondra (Champaign, Ill.), Mohd Irtefa (Austin, Texas), Matthew Browning Prince (San Francisco), Andrew Taylor Plunk (Austin, Texas), Oliver Yu (Austin, Texas) and Vlad Krasnov (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request is received from a client device over a Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel. The request is received at a first one o...