ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,229, issued on June 10, was assigned to Diebold Nixdorf Inc. (North Canton, Ohio).
"Self service terminal with magnetic card reader and optical scanner" was invented by Dave Kraft (Uniontown, Ohio), Marcelo Soares de Castro (Canton, Ohio) and Andrea Carozzi (Delbrueck, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-service terminal can include a computing device, a display, a transceiver, a card module, an optical scanner, and a radiation source. The display can be in communication with the computing device and be controlled by the computing device. The computing device can be configured to transmit and receive data through the transc...