ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,716, issued on March 25, was assigned to NCR Atleos Corp. (Atlanta).

"Replay attack detection" was invented by Alexander William Whytock (Perthshire, Great Britain) and Conor Michael Fyfe (Carnoustie, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Images captured for components of a device are monitored for changes by evaluating a first region of interest in the images. Periodically, a command is sent to the device to move one or more of the components to a known position or state. A certain component or set of components associated with being moved based on the command is evaluated in a second region of interest in the images to dete...