ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,543, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Multiple virtual private network active connection management" was invented by Pankaj Kumar Madhukar (Hyderabad, India), Tushar Gupta (Hyderabad, India), Deepti Aggarwal (Delhi, India) and Gaurav Kumar (Mohali, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes intercepting a packet in a mobile device, the packet having a destination network address. A first virtual private network (VPN) plugin for which the packet is intended is identified out of multiple active VPN plugins. The packet is forwarded to the first VPN p...