ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,326, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NCR Atleos Corp. (Atlanta).

"Transaction flow" was invented by Stephen Glencross (Dunfermline, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding a transaction flow is described. The method comprises: receiving information from a user about a transaction type to be executed; creating a transaction flow comprising a sequence of states, where at least some states include text to be displayed and inputs to be enabled for that state; and encoding the transaction flow into a machine-readable code."

The patent was filed on Feb. 28, 2024, under Application No. 18/590,110.

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