US Patent Issued to Cardtronics USA on March 17 for "Cryptocurrency terminal and transaction processing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,524, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cardtronics USA Inc. (Atlanta).

"Cryptocurrency terminal and transaction processing" was invented by Andrew Robert Hamilton (Dundee, Great Britain), Gordon A. Forsyth (Kinross, Great Britain) and Stephen Glencross (Dunfermline, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Point-Of-Sale (POS) terminal is provided. The POS terminal is configured to process government-backed currency transactions. Furthermore, the POS terminal is configured to process cryptocurrency purchase and sell transactions."

The patent was filed on Jan. 31, 2018, under Application No. 15/884,485.

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