Wincor Nixdorf International Assigned Patent

Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH, Paderborn, Germany, has been assigned a patent (11,320,992) developed by von der Lippe, Carsten, Paderborn, Germany, for “system and method to control the access on information of a peripheral storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A peripheral digital storage device has an interface allowing a connection to a self-service machine for performing maintenance operation to the self-service machine. The device provides a storage area divided into a set of partitions which are interpretable by the self-service machine as independent storage areas for file operation when connected to the self-service machine. A control unit which is configured to control the access to the partitions by refusing or granting the self-service machine an access to the partition depending on identity information receivable from the self-service machine for providing access to individual partitions for each assigned self-service machine connectable to the interface.”

The patent application was filed on May 22, 2019 (16/420,132).