US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Sept. 16 for "Obstruction detection of a transaction device display screen" (New York, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,679, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Obstruction detection of a transaction device display screen" was invented by Michael Waldron (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and David Kelly Wurmfeld (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a transaction device may include a display screen, at least one photosensitive sensor configured to detect a luminance of a viewing surface of the display screen, and one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to monitor an output of the at least one photosensitive sensor, determine that the output is indicative of an obstru...