US Patent Issued to KYNDRYL on Sept. 1 for "Keypad security" (Costa Rican, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,885, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KYNDRYL INC. (New York).

"Keypad security" was invented by Cesar Augusto Rodriguez Bravo (Alajuela, Costa Rica), Carolina Garcia Delgado (Zapopan, Mexico), David Alonso Campos Batista (Aurora, Costa Rica) and Desilda Toska (Alajuela, Costa Rica).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a fake keypad includes: monitoring outputs of plural magnetic field sensors connected to a keypad; detecting the output of at least one of the magnetic field sensors indicates the presence of a magnetic field; starting, in response to the detecting, a timer; determining the first timer reaches a first...