US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on March 25 for "Systems and methods for sanitized transactions with automatic teller machine" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,359, issued on March 25, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Systems and methods for sanitized transactions with automatic teller machine" was invented by Oscar Guerra (San Antonio), Gregory David Hansen (San Antonio) and Anto Chirayil Thomas (Coppell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated teller system is provided that includes a user interface configured to receive user input, a bill counter configured to assemble cash, and a sanitizer configured to receive the cash in a sanitized condition and dispense the cash in the sanitized condition via an access port. The automated telle...