Patent 10175118 was granted and assigned to Block on January, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A payment reader includes an anti-tamper circuit for comparing a voltage measured from a temperature sensing circuit with a voltage from one or more threshold nodes. A voltage of a measurement node of the temperature sensing circuit and of each threshold node may correspond to a temperature. A temperature comparison circuit may determine whether a pre-determined temperature threshold has been breached on a comparison of a voltage of the measurement node of the temperature sensing circuit with voltages corresponding to the one or more temperature thresholds. A tamper attempt may be detected if the voltage measured from the temperature sensing circuit exceeds a high voltage threshold or falls below a low voltage threshold. The temperature comparison circuit may provide an output to anti-tamper circuit indicating a result of the comparison.