US Patent Issued to Bank of America on July 28 for "Unauthorized device detection at automated teller machines" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,762, issued on July 28, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Unauthorized device detection at automated teller machines" was invented by Christian A. Mergliano (Lancaster, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Arrangements for detecting unauthorized devices at automated teller machines (ATMs) are provided. In some examples, an ATM including a display and a card acceptor including at least one Hall effect sensor within the card acceptor, may receive, from the at least one Hall effect sensor, an indication of a presence of a physical magnet within the card acceptor. In response, the ATM may generate a mitigation ac...