ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,464, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to UAB 360 IT (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Optimizing communication in a virtual private network during blocking of an exit internet protocol address" was invented by Karolis Pabijanskas (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including configuring a VPN server to receive, from a user device during an established VPN connection, a first data request to retrieve first information from a first host device; configuring the VPN server to transmit, during the established VPN connection, the first information to the user device based on utilizing a first exit IP address to retrieve the fir...