ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,442, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Oxylabs, UAB (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Access control policy for proxy services" was invented by Miroslav Kozlovski (Vilnius, Lithuania), Gytis Ciuta (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Valdemar Karasevic (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to manage and efficiently perform authorization of multiple proxy clients are disclosed. Furthermore, systems and methods to measure and check whether the web traffic of one or more client devices has reached a permissible limit of web traffic assigned by the proxy service provider. Specifically, a proxy is configured to gather and save ...