ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,716, issued on May 27, was assigned to OXYLABS, UAB (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Network coordination between proxy servers" was invented by Valdas Pilkauskas (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Miroslav Kozlovski (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for coordinating network connectivity and communication between proxy servers, exit-nodes and client modules are disclosed. In one aspect, proxy-nodes in a proxy infrastructure accept connections with exit-nodes based on geographical proximity or proxy-node metrics. Further, a proxy-node can communicate and instruct another proxy-node to service the client request via a ...