ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,643, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Oxylabs, UAB (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Streaming proxy service" was invented by Giedrius Stalioraitis (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclose a system that allows for improved generation of web requests for scraping that, because of the nature of the requests and time and manner they are sent out, appear more organic, as in human generated, than conventional automated scraping systems. The system then manages how a client request to scrape a target website is made to the site, masking the request in a manner that makes it appear to the Web server as if the request i...