US Patent Issued to BANKS AND ACQUIRERS INTERNATIONAL HOLDING on May 13 for "Data entry device intended to be affixed to a touch panel of a terminal and corresponding entry method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,219, issued on May 13, was assigned to BANKS AND ACQUIRERS INTERNATIONAL HOLDING (Suresnes, France).

"Data entry device intended to be affixed to a touch panel of a terminal and corresponding entry method" was invented by Stephane Pavageau (La Roche de Glun, France), Alain Coussieu (Flaviac, France) and Olivier Blanc (Pont de l'Isere, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data input device intended to be affixed to a capacitive touch screen of a terminal includes: a substantially parallelepipedal plate including a lower surface, which is substantially planar, for affixing the device to the touch screen, and an upper surface includi...