US Patent Issued to Worldpay on Aug. 11 for "Systems, methods and apparatus for payment terminal management" (Arizona, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,615, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Worldpay LLC (Symmes Township, Ohio).

"Systems, methods and apparatus for payment terminal management" was invented by Erik William Baar (Cincinnati) and Patricia Lynn Walters (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for remote management of payment terminals. Public keys, or other security elements can be received from a certification authority and distributed to the payment terminals. A merchant, or other entity affiliated with the payment terminals, can monitor the status of the software and security elements of the payment terminals."

The patent ...