US Patent Issued to PAYPAL on April 7 for "Transitioning of devices from their primary function to providing security system functionality" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,005, issued on April 7, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Transitioning of devices from their primary function to providing security system functionality" was invented by Timothy C. Nichols (Los Altos, Calif.), Ramaneek Khanna (Saratoga, Calif.) and Geoffrey W. Chatterton (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point of sale (POS) security system includes a POS device including a non-transitory memory, one or more hardware processors, and one or more environment sensors. A plurality of POS instructions are located on the non-transitory memory in the POS device and executable by the one or more hardware pr...