ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,943, issued on May 27, was assigned to Francotyp-Postalia GmbH (Berlin).
"Service payment system and method" was invented by Clemens Heinrich (Oranienburg, Germany), Dirk Rosenau (Berlin), Stephan Gunther (Glienicke, Germany) and Uwe Hubler (Neuenhagen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method of payment for services, the system includes a system component, an acquisition device and a security module."
The patent was filed on Dec. 17, 2019, under Application No. 16/716,631.
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