US Patent Issued to STRIPE on Feb. 10 for "System and methods to prevent unauthorized usage of card readers" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,033, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to STRIPE INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"System and methods to prevent unauthorized usage of card readers" was invented by Hwai Sian Tsai (Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong) and Chi Wah Lo (Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contactless card reader comprises a contactless card reader front-end coupled to a processor. A communications module is coupled to the processor and a set of sensors is coupled to the processor. The set of sensors determines parameters related to the location, orientation and motion of the card reader. The processor receives the parameters from the set of sensors ...