ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,518, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).
"Modular transaction terminal architecture" was invented by Mark Christopher Johnson (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Ajit Chetty Cotha (Brookhaven, Ga.), Terry Jendon (Dawsonville, Ga.) and Carl Richard Snezek Jr. (Suwanee, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first host device housing is provided with a host device and first peripherals. The host device includes a motherboard and an upper core Input/Output (I/O) control board connected to the motherboard within the host device housing. A non-host device housing includes second peripherals and a lower core I/O control board. Th...