ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,033, issued on June 10, was assigned to NCR Atleos Corp. (Atlanta).
"Terminal breach protection methods and devices" was invented by Robbie Charles Aidan Cowan (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Stewart James Herd (Kinross, Great Britain), Mark Alden Lee (Dalgety Bay, Great Britain) and Rennie McIntosh (Dunfermline, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments herein each include at least one of devices, methods, and assemblies for terminal breach protection. Some such embodiments may be deployed to prevent insertion of implements, such as hooks and wedges, within a terminal, such as an ATM or SSCO, that may be used to a...