ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,572, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NCR Atleos Corp. (Atlanta).

"Monitoring and predicting physical force attacks on transaction terminals" was invented by Jodessiah Sumpter (Alpharetta, Ga.), Christopher John Costello (Suwanee, Ga.), Matthew Robert Burris (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Gregory Joseph Hartl (Atlanta) and Caleb Wayne Martinez (Fayetteville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server obtains real-time video depicting an area that includes a terminal. The server analyzes the video for depictions of a vehicle and objects associated with attacks on terminals, A server provides factors associated with the analysis to a machine...