US Patent Issued to NCR Atleos on July 14 for "Skimming and magnetic read prevention" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,188, issued on July 14, was assigned to NCR Atleos Corp. (Atlanta).

"Skimming and magnetic read prevention" was invented by Dave Peter George Elwin (Dundee, Great Britain), Charles Harrow (Dundee, Great Britain) and Alexander William Whytock (Perthshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card reader prevents a magnetic read head of the card reader from being able to read a magnetic strip of a card and forces the card reader to read card data from an embedded chip of the card instead of the magnetic strip. An electromagnetic noise interference signal is generated and is maintained within the card reader. The signal preven...