ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,994, issued on April 21, was assigned to StratoKey Pty Ltd. (Hobart, Australia).

"Dynamic domain discovery and proxy configuration" was invented by Anthony Scotney (Hobart, Australia) and Sabyasachi Routray (Hobart, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A proxy server system implements dynamic domain discovery and proxy configuration. The proxy server system maintains proxy mapping data including a plurality of mappings, each mapping associating a domain and a proxy string. The proxy server system receives a request including a proxy link, generates a native link that includes a domain associated with the third-party network serv...