ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,118, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NCR Atleos Corp. (Atlanta).
"Device, system, and method for card skimming protection" was invented by Graeme Mitchell (Dundee, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card reader's motorized transport is controlled by firmware of the reader so as to control a distance that any card can be pulled into the reader during a transaction on a host device. The distance is sufficient enough to allow an embedded chip on the card to be read by a chip read interface but is insufficient to be read by a magnetic read interface. Furthermore, the entire length of the card is prevented from completely pas...