ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,614, issued on July 21, was assigned to UAB 360 IT (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Optimizing communication in a virtual private network during blocking of an exit internet protocol address" was invented by Karolis Pabijanskas (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including configuring a VPN server to assign, based on establishing a VPN connection, a first exit IP address to be utilized for retrieving information during the VPN connection; configuring the VPN server to determine, during the established VPN connection, a host device that is likely to block communication from the first exit IP address; configuring the VPN ...