ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,079, issued on March 3, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Authorizing front-end devices with tokens" was invented by Tejen Shrestha (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a token client may transmit, to a token server, a request for a token associated with the front-end device and derived from a secret associated with the front-end device. The token client may receive, from the token server, the token in response to the request for the token and may transmit, to the front-end device, the token. The token client may determine an expiry associated with the token. The token client may tran...