US Patent Issued to Target Brands on June 30 for "Configuration data protection" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,275, issued on June 30, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Configuration data protection" was invented by Clark Walcott (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes in a first package, defining a data type as implementing a method that returns a copy of a protected configuration value and in a second package, providing a function that accepts a variable of the data type and that calls the method to obtain the copy of the protected configuration value. The first package and the second package are imported into a common package so that the function in the second package can obtain the copy of the protec...