ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,753, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).
"Virtualized transaction terminal platform" was invented by Simon Waterman (Somerset, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtualized transaction terminal platform is provided. A transaction terminal is configured as a thin-client terminal. A virtualized transaction terminal (Virtual Machine (VM)) is instantiated remotely on a cloud or a server over a network connection. Peripherals connected to the thin-client terminal are mapped to virtual peripheral device drivers on the cloud or the server. Physical peripherals connected to the thin-client terminal are ma...