ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,351, issued on June 17, was assigned to Menlo Security Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Edge networks for surrogate browsing and direct traffic via proxy" was invented by Rumen Nikolov Telbizov (Burnaby, Canada), Matthew Gordon Mercer (Rossland, Canada), Christopher Turra (Port Coquitlam, Canada), Omid Ehtemam-Haghighi (North Saanich, Canada) and Hugo Marius Slabbert (Mission, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Edge networks for surrogate browsing and direct traffic via proxy are disclosed. A first server processes a received first IPv4 packet into an encapsulation. The encapsulation is sent to a second server. The second server det...