US Patent Issued to Target Brands on July 21 for "Automatic digital certificate request with software deployment" (Minnesota, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,526, issued on July 21, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Automatic digital certificate request with software deployment" was invented by Trey J. Zahradka (Blaine, Minn.), Jeffrey M. Colfer (Raleigh, N.C.) and Aaron J. Zirbes (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a deployment server configured to receive an instruction to deploy software from an entity and in response to the instruction to deploy software, calling an application interface to request a new cryptographic certificate. An application server is configured to execute the application interface to receive the request for the new crypt...