ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,051, issued on March 3, was assigned to Synchrony Bank (Stamford, Conn.).
"Secure point of sale (POS) operations" was invented by Michael Storiale (Stamford, Conn.), Lisa Hammond (Stamford, Conn.), Jake Miller (Stamford, Conn.), Paul Rowe (Denver), Tiffanie Terry (Charlotte, N.C.), Denys Iakimov (Stamford, Conn.), Daniel Sapio (Charlotte, N.C.), Bakhadir Rakhmatov (Stamford, Conn.) and Patrick Joseph Caraher (Stamford, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples presented herein describe secure point of sale (POS) operations. One example is a method including receiving, at a mobile device, a communication associated with a custom t...