ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,823, issued on April 21, was assigned to HOSTINGER operations, UAB (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Terminal access to virtual private servers with automatic protocol fallback" was invented by Algirdas Cicinskas (Kaunas, Lithuania) and Merkys Maliukevicius (Kaunas, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to access a Virtual Private Server (VPS) is receive from a client device. An attempt is made to establish a Secure Shell (SSH) connection with the VPS. Responsive to a failure to establish the SSH connection, a serial console connection is automatically established with the VPS. Data communicated via the serial console connection i...