Airwallet is granted US patent for its unattended-machine payment technology

Danish fintech secures US protection for core technology behind cashless payments on unattended commercial machines, adding to a growing US and European IP position.

ODENSE, Denmark, October 2026. Airwallet, the Danish fintech building cashless payment infrastructure for unattended commercial laundry machines, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company a patent covering core technology in its platform. The patent, US12,755,266, titled "System for commercial services or facilities," was granated on October 6, 2026. The named inventors are Juri Wulff and Christian Bonde Mortensen

The patented technology governs how a phone finds and starts the right machine. Rather than making users hunt for a machine or scan a code, the system pre-authorizes the machines relevant to a user, lets their phone recognize the correct one nearby over a short-range signal, and shows its real-time status and available time slots before use. It is the technical foundation for the fast, reliable machine selection at the core of the Airwallet platform.

The US grant adds to a broader intellectual property position spanning the United States and Europe. Airwallet's corresponding European patent is proceeding to grant across multiple European markets, giving the company a coordinated IP foundation in its two most important regions as it expands internationally.

"This grant reflects years of engineering investment in the infrastructure behind cashless, unattended commerce," Christian Bonde Mortensen, Co-Founder and CEO of Airwallet, says. "It strengthens the foundation we are building as we grow across the US and Europe, and it gives our customers and partners further confidence in the platform they are building on."

"Connecting a phone to the right machine reliably and securely, and showing its availability instantly, is core to the experience. From the user's side it looks effortless, and that is exactly the point: what feels simple to the end-user takes serious engineering underneath, especially at scale," Juri Wulff, VP of Engineering and inventor, explains. "This patent covers the approach we developed to solve exactly that, and it is the kind of problem our engineering team keeps pushing on."

The grant comes as Airwallet continues to expand its commercial footprint in Europe and the United States and to grow its teams across both regions.