ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,690, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Contactless access to service devices to facilitate secure transactions" was invented by Sudhakar Swaminathan (Duluth, Ga.), Muthu Gopalakrishnan (Suwanee, Ga.) and Ryan Loesch (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can be provided that can enable contactless access to service devices to facilitate secure transactions. For example, the system can include Internet of Things (IoT) service devices associated with a service provider. The system can also include a computing environment, which may receive an access request from a mobile device. The acces...