ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,671, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG (Bonn, Germany).

"Methods and system for operating a mobile Point-of-Sales application using a sim" was invented by Dominik Schnieders (Aachen, Germany), Stephan Spitz (Karlsfeld, Germany) and Hermann Geupel (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a mobile Point-of-Sales (mPOS) application for executing a transaction includes: a Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) card connected to a terminal device executes in interaction with the terminal device an application frontend of the mPOS application that provides, upon launch, an I/O interface with a ...