US Patent Issued to VeriFone on June 23 for "Wireless tamper detection" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,553, issued on June 23, was assigned to VeriFone Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Wireless tamper detection" was invented by Ian Matthew Stoddart (Leeds, Great Britain) and Rajesh Kumar Ravulapalli (Middlesbrough, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A payment device and method of detecting a tampering condition of a payment device are provided. The payment device and method include using on-board radios, e.g., ultra-wideband (UWB) radios, to define a reference signature of the payment device and/or the environment surrounding the payment device and comparing the reference signature to a sample signature at periodic intervals or gen...