US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on April 21 for "Detecting a skimmer via a vibration sensor" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,005, issued on April 21, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Detecting a skimmer via a vibration sensor" was invented by Molly Johnson (Alexandria, Va.), Adam Vukich (Alexandria, Va.) and James Zarakas (Centreville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a transaction instrument and method for recording vibration information associated with a transaction at a point-of-service (POS) terminal. The vibration information can be used to determine whether the POS terminal is compromised (e.g., via a skimmer). A transaction instrument can include at least one of an accelerometer or a gyroscope; a microp...