ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,007, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Worldpay Ltd. (London).

"Terminal for conducting electronic transactions" was invented by Jonathan Stewart Vokes (London) and Nicholas Telford-Reed (Bassingborn, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is drawn to, among other things, a method of providing a payment terminal application on an electronic device, the electronic device comprising a volatile storage module, a user input module and a network interface module. In some aspects the method includes receiving user credentials from the user input module, transmitting an authentication request message to a remot...