Atlanta, Oct. 4, 2016 — Bluefin Payment Systems, the leading provider of PCI-validated Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) solutions for retail, healthcare and higher education, today announced the issuance of patent #9,461,973 by the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) on systems and methods for decryption as a service. The patent encompasses both Bluefin’s high-speed decryption platform and P2PE Manager.