US Patent Issued to The PNC Financial Services Group on April 21 for "Credit card features to prevent skimmer fraud" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,700, issued on April 21, was assigned to The PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Credit card features to prevent skimmer fraud" was invented by Robert E. Porco (New Kensington, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include a physical payment card, a point-of-sale card payment device for processing a payment using the physical payment card, and a card payment network in communication with the point-of-sale card payment device. The physical payment card includes embedded data and non-embedded data. Embedded data may include payment information required for processing a payment using the physical payment card, wh...