ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,300, issued on June 10, was assigned to CONNECTIFY INC. (Philadelphia).

"Connection management over restricted network" was invented by Brian Prodoehl (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.), Brian Lutz (Philadelphia), Kevin Cunningham (Swarthmore, Pa.) and Alexander Gizis (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example may include receiving data, via a client device, from a virtual private network (VPN) server over a first connection of a first network, sending a request sent outside the VPN server, via the client device, to access a second network detected by the client device while the client device is communicating with the VPN server o...