US Patent Issued to Diebold Nixdorf on Dec. 9 for "System for inputting a pin block to a network" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,878, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Diebold Nixdorf Inc. (North Canton, Ohio).

"System for inputting a pin block to a network" was invented by David William Kuchenski (Tallmadge, Ohio), Richard Harris (Southampton, Great Britain) and Anne Konecny (Uniontown, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for inputting pin blocks to a network can include receiving a first pin from a key pad with an encryption module, which is then encrypted to a first pin block with a network encryption key and transmitted to a first computing device that inputs the first pin block to a secure network. The encryption module can also receive a second p...