ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,545, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Providing remote access to service devices to facilitate secure transactions" was invented by Muthu Gopalakrishnan (Suwanee, Ga.) and Ryan Loesch (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can be provided that can enable remote access to IoT service devices to facilitate secure transactions. For example, the system can include a IoT service device positioned in a location associated with a service provider. The system can also include a computing environment, which may receive, from a mobile device, a request to perform a function of the IoT service de...