ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,744, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PROGRESSIVE CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY (Mayfield Village, Ohio).

"Multitiered interfacing architecture" was invented by David Mark Krew (Richfield, Ohio), John J. Zgonc (Aurora, Ohio) and Matthew Todd White (Avon Lake, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method provide access to a remote resource locally by requesting content from an original address and receiving a first requested content and a first redirect uniform resource locator through an interactive element, such as a smart widget, for example. The first redirect uniform resource locator reroutes the navigation from the origi...