ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,913, issued on April 21, was assigned to Netflow, UAB (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Clustering of virtual private network servers" was invented by Donatas Budvytis (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Karolis Kaciulis (Kaisiadorys, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VPN connection request is received from a user device. Two or more VPN servers are associated with a single entry Internet Protocol (IP) address. The two or more VPN servers includes a first VPN server and a second VPN server. The single entry IP address is transmitted to the user device. A secure VPN connection is established between the user device and the first VPN server using ...