ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,938, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK (Toronto).

"Method and network for configuring a communications terminal" was invented by Robert Hayhow (Burlington, Canada) and Bryan Michael Gleeson (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal configuration network includes a communications terminal and a certificate server. The certificate server is configured to receive, from the communications terminal, an activation request that includes at least one credential. The certificate server is configured to confirm that the credential was uniquely associated with the terminal in a database before the server rece...