Patents Assigned to VeriFone, Inc.
  • Electromagnetic field induced MSR swipes detection
    Patent number: 7866556
    Abstract: A payment terminal including a magnetic card reader, a decoder receiving analog signals from the magnetic card reader and providing a digital data output to utilization circuitry and data integrity assurance circuitry operative to eliminate spurious data due to Electromagnetic Field (EMF) interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Verifone Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Pedigo, Winston Can Wain Leong, Kevin Richard Starinieri, Paul A. Serotta
  • Secure PIN entry device for mobile phones
    Patent number: 7844255
    Abstract: A secure mobile phone-point of sale (POS) system includes a mobile phone integrated with a secure PED module. The secure PED module is integrated with the mobile phone via the phone's serial port or directly to the phone's Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA). The secure PED module conforms to security standards imposed by the payment card industry. The secure mobile phone-POS system has the functionality of both the secure PED and the mobile phone and the look and feel of the mobile phone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: VeriFone, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Petrov, Scott Goldthwaite, William W. Graylin
  • Secure point of sale device employing capacitive sensors
    Patent number: 7843339
    Abstract: A point of sale device including a housing, a protected enclosure located within the housing, information storage functionality located within the protected enclosure and storing information to be protected information, a capacitance sensor based security system including at least one capacitance sensor operative to sense the capacitance of at least one of at least part of the housing and at least part of the protected enclosure at a reference time and thereafter and to provide an alarm indication of at least a predetermined change in the capacitance sensed by the at least one capacitance sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Verifone, Inc.
    Inventor: Ehud Kirmayer
  • Protective cover for terminal keypad security switches
    Patent number: 7832628
    Abstract: A point-of-sale terminal may incorporate a security device for preventing penetration of a foreign conductor into a region in fluid communication with a security switch of the point-of-sale terminal. The device may include a barrier member configured to be disposed inside the terminal and to resist penetration by a hypodermic needle. The barrier member of the security device may be a rigid keypad cover configured to be disposed between a keypad of the terminal and an upper casing of the terminal, and may include a plurality of apertures configured to fit closely around keys of the keypad. The barrier member of the security device also may be a rigid light guide configured to be disposed between a printed circuit board of the terminal and a keypad of the terminal, and to provide backlighting to the keypad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: VeriFone, Inc.
    Inventor: Jon Mittler
  • Security functionality for magnetic card readers and point of sales devices
    Patent number: 7784691
    Abstract: A magnetic card reader including a magnetic head, located in a non-secured region, at least one signal path extending from the magnetic head in the non-secured region to a secured region, signal processing circuitry located within the secured region, an obscuring signal injector located within the secured region and an obscuring signal remover located within the secured region, for receiving a combination of at least one signal output and an obscuring signal and for providing an unobscured signal output, corresponding to the at least one signal output, to the signal processing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Verifone Inc.
    Inventors: Mehran Mirkazemi-Moud, Arnon Aviv
  • Capacitive user-interface switches
    Patent number: 7772514
    Abstract: An electronic device including a housing having an outer surface, at least one printed circuit board located within the housing and having at least one edge located in propinquity to at least one corresponding edge region of the outer surface, at least one capacitance sensor located at the at least one edge of the printed circuit board and being adapted to sense a change in capacitance at the at least one corresponding edge region resulting from engagement therewith by an object having predetermined capacitance characteristics and capacitance change responsive switching circuitry located within the housing and coupled to the at least one capacitance sensor for providing a desired switching function responsive to the engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Verifone, Inc.
    Inventor: Ehud Kirmayer
  • Magnetic card reader, especially for point of sale terminals
    Patent number: 7753275
    Abstract: A point of sale device including a housing, a magnetic card reader disposed in the housing, the magnetic card reader including at least first and second heads, a flexible circuit board electrically coupled to the first and second heads and a unitary resilient head mounting element resiliently supporting the at least first and second heads independently of the flexible circuit board and electronic circuitry coupled to the magnetic card reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Verifone, Inc.
    Inventor: Christian Eric Schulz
  • Anti-tampering protection for magnetic stripe reader
    Patent number: 7597261
    Abstract: A magnetic stripe reading device including a magnetic head assembly including a mounting element, at least one information reading sensor having output contacts, the sensor being mounted in the mounting element and a flat cable coupled to the output contacts of the at least one information reading sensor, a portion of the flat cable being arranged in a doubled-over configuration over the output contacts, thereby to provide anti-tampering protection to the output contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Verifone, Inc.
    Inventor: Arnon Aviv
  • PROPINQUITY DETECTION BY PORTABLE DEVICES
    Publication number: 20090237214
    Abstract: A point of sale (POS) terminal including a contactless transaction/identification card reader and a propinquity verifier, coupled to the contactless card reader and verifying at least predetermined propinquity of the POS terminal to a propinquity indication element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: VERIFONE, INC.
    Inventors: David Talach, David S. Kaplan
  • SECURED KEYPAD DEVICES
    Publication number: 20090184850
    Abstract: A data entry device including a housing including a top housing portion including key apertures, a plurality of data entry keys mounted in the housing to have data entry key depression travel paths in the housing, the plurality of data entry keys being associated with a substrate, which is disposed below the top housing portion and anti-tampering electrical conductors arranged between the top housing portion and the substrate thereby to prevent unauthorized access to the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: Verifone, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Eric Schulz, Arnon Aviv, Amihay Avital, Sergey Meron, Mehran Mirkazemi-Moud, Dave Faoro
  • CAPACITIVE USER-INTERFACE SWITCHES
    Publication number: 20090161325
    Abstract: An electronic device including a housing having an outer surface, at least one printed circuit board located within the housing and having at least one edge located in propinquity to at least one corresponding edge region of the outer surface, at least one capacitance sensor located at the at least one edge of the printed circuit board and being adapted to sense a change in capacitance at the at least one corresponding edge region resulting from engagement therewith by an object having predetermined capacitance characteristics and capacitance change responsive switching circuitry located within the housing and coupled to the at least one capacitance sensor for providing a desired switching function responsive to the engagement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: VERIFONE, INC.
    Inventor: Ehud Kirmayer
  • ENHANCED SECURITY MAGNETIC CARD READER ESPECIALLY USEFUL IN POINT OF SALE DEVICES
    Publication number: 20090127336
    Abstract: A magnetic card reader including a magnetic head, located in a non-secured region, at least one signal path including at least first and second electrical conductors extending from the magnetic head in the non-secured region to a secured region, circuitry located within the secured region and receiving at least one signal output along at least one signal path, the circuitry located within the secured region including functionality ensuring that a voltage difference along the at least first and second electrical conductors is virtually zero, thereby obviating illicit information retrieval via tapping of the at least first and second conductors and analysis of voltage differences therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: VERIFONE, INC.
    Inventors: Mehran Mirkazemi-Moud, Jack Richard Grenfell, Arnon Aviv
  • ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD INDUCED MSR SWIPES DETECTION
    Publication number: 20090078764
    Abstract: A payment terminal including a magnetic card reader, a decoder receiving analog signals from the magnetic card reader and providing a digital data output to utilization circuitry and data integrity assurance circuitry operative to eliminate spurious data due to Electromagnetic Field (EMF) interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: VERIFONE, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Pedigo, Winston Can Wain Leong, Kevin Richard Starinieri, Paul A. Serotta
  • ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD INDUCED MSR SWIPES DETECTION
    Publication number: 20090078765
    Abstract: A payment terminal including a magnetic card reader, a decoder receiving analog signals from the magnetic card reader and providing a digital data output to utilization circuitry and data integrity assurance circuitry operative to eliminate spurious data due to Electromagnetic Field (EMF) interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: VERIFONE, INC.
    Inventors: Winston Can Wain Leong, Kevin Richard Starinieri, Paul A. Serotta, Michael Pedigo
  • MAGNETIC CARD READER, ESPECIALLY FOR POINT OF SALE TERMINALS
    Publication number: 20090072033
    Abstract: A point of sale device including a housing, a magnetic card reader disposed in the housing, the magnetic card reader including at least first and second heads, a flexible circuit board electrically coupled to the first and second heads and a unitary resilient head mounting element resiliently supporting the at least first and second heads independently of the flexible circuit board and electronic circuitry coupled to the magnetic card reader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: VERIFONE, INC.
    Inventor: Christian Eric Schulz
  • SECURE POINT OF SALE DEVICE EMPLOYING CAPACITIVE SENSORS
    Publication number: 20090058628
    Abstract: A point of sale device including a housing, a protected enclosure located within the housing, information storage functionality located within the protected enclosure and storing information to be protected information, a capacitance sensor based security system including at least one capacitance sensor operative to sense the capacitance of at least one of at least part of the housing and at least part of the protected enclosure at a reference time and thereafter and to provide an alarm indication of at least a predetermined change in the capacitance sensed by the at least one capacitance sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: VERIFONE, INC.
    Inventor: Ehud Kirmayer
  • Anti-tampering protection for magnetic stripe reader
    Patent number: 7497378
    Abstract: A magnetic stripe reading device including a magnetic head assembly including a mounting element, at least one information reading sensor having output contacts, the sensor being mounted in the mounting element and a flat cable coupled to the output contacts of the at least one information reading sensor, a portion of the flat cable being arranged in a doubled-over configuration over the output contacts, thereby to provide anti-tampering protection to the output contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Verifone, Inc.
    Inventor: Arnon Aviv
  • SECURITY FUNCTIONALITY FOR MAGNETIC CARD READERS AND POINT OF SALES DEVICES
    Publication number: 20080315989
    Abstract: A magnetic card reader including a magnetic head, located in a non-secured region, at least one signal path extending from the magnetic head in the non-secured region to a secured region, signal processing circuitry located within the secured region, an obscuring signal injector located within the secured region and an obscuring signal remover located within the secured region, for receiving a combination of at least one signal output and an obscuring signal and for providing an unobscured signal output, corresponding to the at least one signal output, to the signal processing circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: VERIFONE, INC.
    Inventors: Mehran Mirkazemi-Moud, Arnon Aviv
  • ANTI-TAMPER PROTECTED ENCLOSURE
    Publication number: 20080180245
    Abstract: A device for containing sensitive data including a housing, an anti-tamper protected enclosure located within the housing and being adapted to contain the sensitive data, anti-tamper protection circuitry located within the anti-tamper protected enclosure and at least one ball grid array arranged within the housing and mounted on an outer surface of the anti-tamper protected enclosure and electrically coupled to the anti-tamper protection circuitry for protecting against unauthorized access to the interior of the anti-tamper protected enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: VERIFONE, INC.
    Inventors: Steve Hsu, Daniel Hong, Kenji Chao, Douglas Manchester
  • Point-of-sale terminal mounting adapter
    Patent number: D476359
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Verifone, Inc.
    Inventor: Jon P. Mittler