Company patents
NCR Atleos Corporation
NCR Atleos Corporation's patent strategy reveals a surprising, near-equal focus on 'Coin / Token Operated Apparatus' (36.2% of portfolio) and 'Business Methods & Fintech' (35.2% of portfolio), both experiencing an identical explosive 833.3% year-over-year growth in 2025, suggesting a dual emphasis on physical transaction hardware and the underlying financial technology. While many categories saw significant patenting activity in 2025, the sharp decline in filings across most areas so far in 2026, including a 100% YoY drop in 'Material Handling (Sheets, Webs)' and 'Image Processing', indicates a potential shift in priorities or a more selective filing approach.
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Yearly patent publications since 2023
Product themes
Product-level themes inferred from filings since 2023, with category chips showing where each theme appears. Select a theme to filter the patents below.
105 US filings (since 2023) · 12 categories · 19 themes
Systems designed to streamline and automate various commercial transactions, including mobile-enhanced processes, secure online checkouts, customer service interactions, and privilege issuance, often leveraging digital authentication.
Technologies designed to prevent, detect, and audit fraudulent activities or tampering within gaming establishments and electronic transaction systems, ensuring integrity of games and financial operations.
Mechanisms and control systems for reliably feeding, conveying, and separating print media, including managing media roll changes, adjusting airflow, and adapting to different media characteristics.
Focuses on the physical construction and integration of electronic components, such as antennas, IC chips, and display elements, into smart cards or secure documents, often involving multi-layer structures and specialized materials.
Mechanical lock designs and components focused on resisting picking, unauthorized manipulation, forced entry, or other technical unlocking methods, often through complex internal mechanisms or robust materials.
Technologies for securing, managing, and transacting with virtual currencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and other blockchain-based digital assets, including hardware wallets and tokenization schemes for various purposes.
Systems and methods for enhancing player retention, offering incentives, and managing player accounts and credits across multiple gaming sessions, machines, or venues to foster continued participation.
Engineering solutions for creating electronic devices with bendable, foldable, or stretchable form factors, often involving hinges, flexible displays, and sliding mechanisms to enable dynamic physical configurations.
Systems and methods for uniquely identifying, tracking, and managing physical items using scannable codes (barcodes, QR codes) or wireless tags (RFID, IoT devices) to link physical objects to digital information, inventory, or services.
Systems and methods for authenticating users, devices, or applications, authorizing their access to resources based on policies, and managing digital identities across various platforms.
Locks integrating electronic components for remote control, wireless communication, internet connectivity, and digital credential management, often including features for user identification and access monitoring.
Systems that employ imaging and image processing to automatically detect defects, verify states, or ensure quality control in manufactured goods, printed materials, or industrial processes.
Technologies for maintaining the correct path and alignment of webs or individual sheets during conveyance, including mechanisms for steering, correcting positional deviations, and managing static electricity.
Techniques for protecting data at rest or in backup, ensuring its integrity, confidentiality, and verifiable origin, often involving encryption, unique identifiers, or secure repositories.
Methods and apparatus for detecting objects and determining their three-dimensional position and orientation (pose) using imagery or point cloud data, often for navigation, surveying, or environmental understanding.
Locking mechanisms specifically designed for automotive applications, recreational vehicles, or unique door types like bi-fold, sliding, or container doors, often incorporating specific safety, noise reduction, or operational features.
Techniques for efficiently supplying power to electronic devices, managing battery charge/discharge cycles, optimizing power consumption, and converting power between different voltage levels or AC/DC for improved energy efficiency and longevity.
Systems that perform operations like cutting, folding, binding, or applying liquids to sheets or webs, often integrated within larger production lines such as printing or image forming apparatuses.
Methods and systems for improving the quality of video streams, generating intermediate frames, or continuously locating and following objects within a sequence of images, even under occlusion.
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