ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,447, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to UAB 360 IT (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Multi-part TCP connection over VPN" was invented by Emanuelis Norbutas (Vilnius, Lithuania), Tomas Okmanas (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Marijus Briedis (Jurbarkai, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Based on an initiation request for a first connection from a Virtual Private Network (VPN) user device intended for a target, a second connection is established between a VPN concentrator and the VPN user device across a VPN tunnel and a third connection is established between the VPN concentrator and the target. The second connection is established with a first ...