ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,544, issued on May 13, was assigned to UAB 360 IT (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Using creation times in identifying optimal VPN servers" was invented by Kazimieras Celiesius (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Mindaugas Valkaitis (Vilnius, 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. A respective penalty score for a VPN server is calculated based on a time of creation of the VPN server such that a first VPN server of the VPN servers having a first creation time that is earlier in time than a second creation time of a second VPN s...