ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,930, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to UAB 360 IT (Vilnius, Lithuania).
"Using compromised exit IP addresses in identifying optimal VPN servers" was invented by Kazimieras Celiesius (Vilnius, Lithuania), Mindaugas Valkaitis (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Jovaldas Januskevicius (Kaunas, Lithuania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request is received from a user device. In response to the request, respective penalty scores for VPN servers are calculated. At least some of the VPN servers are associated with respective exit internet protocol (IP) addresses. A respective penalty score for a VPN server is calculated based on a ratio of the respe...