ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,958, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to OXYLABS, UAB (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Methods and systems for implementing a regionally contiguous proxy service" was invented by Valdas Pilkauskas (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Karolis Dzekunskas (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for efficiently implementing scalable, highly efficient decentralized proxy services through proxy infrastructures situated in different geo-locations. In one aspect, the systems and methods enable users from any geographical location to send requests to the geographically closest proxy infrastructure. One exemplary method described allows pr...