ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,938, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Wayne Fueling Systems LLC (Austin, Texas).
"Multimode retail system" was invented by Timothy M. Weston (Cedar Park, Texas), Weiming Tang (Austin, Texas) and David Spiller (Cumming, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimode system for receiving data in a retail environment includes: a secure input module for receiving high security input and low security input from a customer, the high security input to be communicated by the secure input module in cipher text, and the low security input to be communicated by the secure input module in plaintext. The multimode system is adapted to operate i...