ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,764, issued on April 15, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Facilitating access to web flows utilizing network access tokens according to network capacity" was invented by Thomas Kiencke (Hamburg, Germany) and Arne Franken (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for flexibly and efficiently managing network traffic for a web flow utilizing network access tokens. For example, the disclosed systems facilitate smooth, uninterrupted navigation through various webpages of a web flow (e.g., from an entry point to an exit poin...