ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,567, issued on May 6, was assigned to UAB 360 IT (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Secure connections between servers in a virtual private network" was invented by Karolis Pabijanskas (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Darius Simanel (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for utilizing, by a VPN server, a first exit IP address to transmit a first query to a host device for retrieving data of interest requested by the user device; determining, by the VPN server based at least in part on transmitting the first query, that the host device has blocked the first exit IP address; establishing, by the VPN server based at least in part on de...