ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,522, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Netflow, UAB (Vilnius, Lithuania).
"Hierarchical-context area network as a virtual private network infrastructure system" was invented by Karolis Kaciulis (Kaisiadorys, Lithuania), Nikodemas Zaliauskas (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Donatas Budvytis (Vilnius, Lithuania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hierarchical-context area network includes a first, level-one, context area network, a second, level-one, context area network, and a third, level-two, context area network, wherein the first context area network is allocated a first shared IP address in a first range, the first context area network inc...