ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,712, issued on April 15, was assigned to UAB 360 IT (Lewes, Del.).

"Providing a split-configuration virtual private network" was invented by Kazimieras Celiesius (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a virtual private network (VPN) environment is disclosed. A user device transmits, to a VPN server before establishment of a VPN connection between the user device and the VPN server, an initiation request to establish the VPN connection. The initiation request includes remote content information indicating remote content that is unavailable in a geographic location of the user device. The user device receives, fr...