ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,472, issued on July 22, was assigned to NCR Atleos Corp. (Atlanta).

"Anticipatory and remote-controlled media management" was invented by Andrew Robert Grant (Dunblane, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media level of each Self-Service Terminal (SST) within a customized group of SSTs are managed in real time based on a current media level and a predicted optimal media level for each SST over a given period of time. During management, depositors are proactively steered away from media heavy SSTs to media deficient SSTs within the group. Any given SST of the group may have deposits temporarily disabled based on real-time i...