ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,085, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Tempus Technologies Inc. (Auburn, Ind.).
"Cloud-based transaction processing" was invented by Jason Adley Sweitzer (Auburn, Ind.), Benjamin Allen Hunsberger (Shipshewana, Ind.) and Kyle Joseph Jurick (Garrett, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peripheral controller implemented on a server facilitates a transaction initiated at a payment user interface (UI). The peripheral controller is configured to pair the payment UI with a peripheral device, which is configured to receive payment information from a user. The peripheral controller also is configured to communicate with a payment processin...