ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,575, issued on Feb. 17.

"Website access workflow" was invented by Peng Yao (Nanjing, China), Lei Zhou (Nanjing, China) and Tianyu Xiao (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A website access workflow includes receiving, from a browser associated with a user, a Universal Resource Locator (URL) associated with a website; comparing the URL with at least one domain name in a user domain name list associated with the user to determine whether the URL exists in the domain name list; in response to determining that the URL does not exist in the user domain name list, adding the URL to the user domain name list; and in response to a ...