ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,873, issued on March 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and device for split tunneling" was invented by Dongwon Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taejune Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kwangyong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may obtain a security rule for supporting split tunneling, check a condition for executing a first operation related to bypassing the VPN tunnel by comparing a first value to information based on a first offset in a first element of the packet based on the security rule, check a condition for performing a second operation...