US Patent Issued to DIEBOLD NIXDORF on May 27 for "Method of operating an automated transaction machine for enhanced security" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,921, issued on May 27, was assigned to DIEBOLD NIXDORF Inc. (North Canton, Ohio).

"Method of operating an automated transaction machine for enhanced security" was invented by Damon J. Blackford (Akron, Ohio), Ricardo Barros (Macedonia, Ohio) and Chris Rowe (Copley, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by an automated transaction machine (ATM) can include maintaining, with the ATM, a count of disbursement commands received by the ATM that require the ATM to dispense a stack size of currency greater than or equal to a first predetermined amount. The method can also include comparing, with the ATM, the count to a secon...