ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,866, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Secure transfer of access credentials" was invented by Andrew Guck (Plymouth, Minn.), Carolina Clement (Maple Grove, Minn.), Emma Matthies (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Manish Kumar Khedawat (Rajasthan, India), Dustin Gundrum (Blaine, Minn.) and Joshua Scott Jenquist (Golden Valley, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a system is provided for securely transferring access credentials from a mobile device that is exclusively operated by a single user, to a terminal device that is shared among multiple different users, via a session server. A se...