ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,204, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Worldpay LLC (Symmes Township, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for cloud-based management of payment devices" was invented by Coy Christensen (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for cloud-based management of payment devices includes connecting a point of interaction device (POI) to a terminal management engine (TME) through a computer network, downloading operating software for the POI and configuration files for the POI from the TME to the POI, initializing the POI using the operating software, and configuring the POI using the configuration files. An al...