US Patent Issued on Feb. 3 for "Automated machine provided with a bill acceptor for driving a drive device" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,020, issued on Feb. 3.

"Automated machine provided with a bill acceptor for driving a drive device" was invented by Paul Pechinko (Geneva, Ohio), Takayuki Takeda (Osaka, Japan), Yasumasa Suzuki (Osaka, Japan) and Koji Kuroiwa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated machine 1 is provided to comprise a communications device 5 for receiving remotely operable signals emitted from a mobile terminal 10 to produce monetary signals corresponding to money amount data in the remotely operable signals, a bill acceptor 4 for validating bills inserted from the outside to produce the monetary signals when bill acceptor 4 judges th...