ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,459, issued on May 13, was assigned to CONNECTIFY INC. (Philadelphia).
"Optimal internet pathway selection" was invented by Brian Prodoehl (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.) and Kevin Cunningham (Swarthmore, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method may include receiving upload packets, at an interconnect server center (ISC) device from a virtual private network (VPN) client device, and the upload packets may include a header identifying the (ISC) device and a destination server as destination fields, transmitting, via the ISC device, tests packets along a plurality of different Internet pathways to identify network characteristics o...