US Patent Issued to NCR Voyix on Oct. 7 for "Presence aware terminals" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,280, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Presence aware terminals" was invented by April Rogers (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, methods, and software for presence aware terminals. Some such embodiments enable a user carrying a mobile device, such as a smartphone, tablet, smartwatch, or a handheld computing device having a radio device (e.g., BLUETOOTH(R) or Near-Field Communication (NFC)) to be automatically recognized at a terminal. One such embodiment is in the form of a method that executes on a terminal. This method includes tran...