ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,886, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Computer-implemented method and system to govern status check of at least one hyperlink in preservation of user's anonymity of the accessed hyperlink" was invented by Dmitry Ledentsov (Munich) and Bernd Lindner (Kirchheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method and to a system to govern status check of at least one hyperlink in preservation of user's anonymity of the accessed hyperlink, comprising the following method steps: Providing probabilistic data structure storage, where at least one generated first fing...