ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,930, issued on July 14, was assigned to Netflow, UAB (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Hierarchical-context area network as a virtual private network infrastructure system" was invented by Karolis Kaciulis (Kaisiadorys, Lithuania), Nikodemas Zaliauskas (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Donatas Budvytis (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operating a hierarchical-context area network includes a first VPN server obtaining an automatic egress reconfiguration policy associated with a defined scope, wherein the automatic egress reconfiguration policy indicates a defined automatic egress reconfiguration period, receiving, from an end user devic...