ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,078, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Reimaging endpoint devices, and securely managing credentials for the same" was invented by Adam Nawrocki (Plymouth, Minn.), David Pankratz (Minneapolis) and Dylan Essing (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a system for securely and automatically provisioning endpoint devices includes an administrative API that generates a token, an OS image repository that stores and makes available over a network an image of an operating system ("OS") that includes the token, a central endpoint manager that provides the OS, a secure credential ...