US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on Aug. 25 for "Atm surrounding lighting self-diagnosis" (North Carolina, New Mexico, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,668, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Atm surrounding lighting self-diagnosis" was invented by Frank A. DiGangi (Statesville, N.C.), James Merritt Fordham III (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Angel L. Johnson (Las Cruces, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are disclosed for automated self-diagnosis of surrounding lighting for Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). An example technique may include capturing light intensity data, with a sensor of the ATM, at a particular distance from the ATM, and comparing the light intensity data to a specified light intensity threshold of the A...