US Patent Issued to Bank of America on July 1 for "Secure edge device for contactless vehicle processing" (New Jersey, South Carolina, North Carolina, Colorado, Minnesota, Florida, Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,141, issued on July 1, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Secure edge device for contactless vehicle processing" was invented by Joseph Benjamin Castinado (North Glenn, Colo.), Naoll Addisu Merdassa (Chakopee, Minn.), Lalit Dhawan (Franklin Park, N.J.), Robert Nyeland Huggins (Charlotte, N.C.), Pratap Dande (Saint Johns, Fla.), Michael Joseph Carroll (Orland Park, Ill.), Brandon Sloane (Indian Land, S.C.) and Vijaya L. Vemireddy (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide a secure edge device for contactless resource distribution and resource crediting from an automo...