ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,655, issued on May 13, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"ATM leveraging edge devices for alternative data routing" was invented by Manu Kurian (Dallas), Siten Sanghvi (Jersey City, N.J.), Heather Dolan (Sarasota, Fla.), George Albero (Charlotte, N.C.), Maharaj Mukherjee (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Kevin A. Delson (Woodland Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method enabling processing electronic transactions received at the ATM when network connection with the central server is disrupted. The method may enable processing each electronic transaction received using an alternative data routing pathway. Th...