US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on May 27 for "Fraud monitoring device and fraud monitoring method therefor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,955, issued on May 27, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Fraud monitoring device and fraud monitoring method therefor" was invented by Hidehiro Naito (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a fraud monitoring device detects a possibility of a fraudulent act of a customer with respect to a payment terminal. The fraud monitoring device receives an instruction of verification completion for a possibility of a fraudulent act, the instruction being given by a salesclerk. Further, the fraud monitoring device prohibits payment processing of a payment terminal in which a possibility of a f...