US Patent Issued to NCR Atleos on Aug. 4 for "Monitoring and predicting physical force attacks on transaction terminals" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,288, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NCR Atleos Corp. (Atlanta).

"Monitoring and predicting physical force attacks on transaction terminals" was invented by Jodessiah Sumpter (Alpharetta, Ga.), Christopher John Costello (Suwanee, Ga.), Matthew Robert Burris (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Gregory Joseph Hartl (Atlanta) and Caleb Wayne Martinez (Fayetteville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Factors associated with past brute force attacks on terminals within a given area are derived. The factors include a total number of the past brute force attacks, a severity, a time of day, a calendar date, a day of week, and weather experienced in the g...