ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,988, issued on Oct. 21.
"ATM fraud detection system and methods thereof" was invented by Pranav Jayabalan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ATM fraud detection system having a plurality of vibration sensors to detect vibration of one or more of an ATM cash dispenser, card reader, cash rejection bin, and/or cash tray. The system further having NFC sensor to detect persistent presence of wireless signal near an ATM machine. The system also includes a plurality of reed switch sensors to detect tampering of cash door, network cable-model interface, network cable-computer interface, hard disk drive-computer interface an...