US Patent Issued to NCR Voyix on Sept. 15 for "Systems and methods of encrypting transaction data" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,746, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods of encrypting transaction data" was invented by Alexander William Whytock (Perthshire, Great Britain) and Conor Michael Fyfe (Carnoustie, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments herein relate data privacy, in particular systems and method of encrypting transaction data. One example method includes receiving, within processing of a transaction, an encryption data element from customer at a point-of-sale (POS) terminal and encrypting a digital receipt of the transaction with the encryption data element. This method then pr...