ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,856, issued on March 25, was assigned to Cujo LLC (Covina, Calif.).
"Network security with VPN detection" was invented by Filip Savin (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Leonardas Marozas (Vilnius, Lithuania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network apparatus maintains a database of a plurality of virtual private network (VPN) protocols and respective VPN providers. A VPN protocol detection process is performed for determining a VPN protocol used by a computing device based on analyzing network traffic data and the database. In response to detecting the VPN protocol detection process failing or detecting a need to identify a respective VPN prov...