US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Aug. 26 for "Banking at an ATM using a mobile device" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,198, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Banking at an ATM using a mobile device" was invented by Arjun Thimmareddy (Charlotte, N.C.), Bryan T. King (Charlotte, N.C.), Alexander S. Lee (Jacksonville, Fla.), Vaishnavi Varma (New York), Tony Aidoo (Aubrey, Texas), Paula M. Booze (Charlotte, N.C.), Ramesh B. Chandanala (Charlotte, N.C.), William R. Conrad (New Castle, Del.), Juliet Abdul-Aziz (Chester, Great Britain) and Gerard P. Gay (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for banking at an automated teller machine (ATM) using a mobile device. The ATM may automatically detect the presenc...