US Patent Issued to Diebold Nixdorf on Aug. 12 for "Automated transaction machine with associated beacon" (Ohio, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,184, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Diebold Nixdorf Inc. (North Canton, Ohio).

"Automated transaction machine with associated beacon" was invented by Devon Watson (North Canton, Ohio), Douglas Kurt Hartung (Kingwood, Texas), Vanessa Gagnon (Stow, Ohio), Gregory Shimek (Akron, Ohio) and Gary A. Ganger (Uniontown, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Automated Transaction Machine (ATM) is associated with a beacon. The beacon may communicate with an electronic device running a software application that is configured to detect the beacon. The software application may have a reaction based upon the detection of the beacon. The ATM o...