ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,946, issued on March 11, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"System for third party sellers in online retail environment" was invented by Jorge A. Trujillo (Minneapolis), Andrew Boerema (Minneapolis) and Dakota Reese Brown (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A third party item listing management system useable for validation of third party items to be included on a retailer website is disclosed. The third party item listing management system includes an application programming interface (API) accessible by a plurality of third parties and configured to receive item data. An item management process receives the...