ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,226, issued on June 17, was assigned to Tailscale Inc. (Toronto).

"Management of domain name system (DNS) queries in computing systems" was invented by David J. Crawshaw (Berkeley, Calif.), David Anderson (Victoria, Canada) and Avery Pennarun (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and software to manage domain name system (DNS) requests in a computing system. In one example, a computing system identifies a DNS request from an application on the computing system and, in response to the request, identifies a DNS server to support the DNS request from a plurality of DNS servers based on a domain ...