ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,647, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Oxylabs, UAB (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Managed exit nodes and third party proxy providers in a proxy infrastructure" was invented by Valdas Pilkauskas (Vilnius, Lithuania), Miroslav Kozlovski (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Gytis Ciuta (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods herein provide for a proxy infrastructure. In the proxy infrastructure, a network element (e.g., a supernode) is connected with a plurality of exit nodes. At one of a plurality of messenger units of the proxy infrastructure, a proxy protocol request is received directly from a client computing device. ...