ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,239, issued on April 7, was assigned to Snappi Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Accelerating connections to a host server" was invented by Peter Lepeska (Boston) and Demetrios James Tsillas (Littleton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In anticipation of a client device establishing a connection over a network with a remote host service, a pre-connect module generates a connection request (referred to herein as a "pre-connect request") on behalf of the client device and sends the pre-connect request to the remote host server. The remote server responds with a connection response (referred to herein as a "pre-connect response"), which is ...