ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,215, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to UAB 360 IT (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Providing substitute domain information in a virtual private network" was invented by Mindaugas Valkaitis (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a virtual private network (VPN) environment, the method including receiving, at a user device, domain information associated with a VPN service provider; transmitting, by the user device, a first connection request to the VPN service provider based at least in part on utilizing the domain information; determining, by the user device, that the VPN service provider cannot be reached via utilizatio...