ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,395, issued on June 3, was assigned to CLOUDFLARE INC. (San Francisco).

"Methods and apparatuses for providing internet-based proxy services" was invented by Lee Hahn Holloway (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Matthew Browning Prince (San Francisco), Ian Gerald Pye (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Matthieu Philippe Francois Tourne (San Francisco) and Michelle Marie Zatlyn (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A proxy server receives, from multiple visitors of multiple client devices, a plurality of requests for actions to be performed on identified network resources belonging to a plurality of origin servers. At least some of the origin servers belo...