US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on May 20 for "System and method for applying ultra violet light doses to currency bills" (Virginia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,610, issued on May 20, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"System and method for applying ultra violet light doses to currency bills" was invented by David Kelly Wurmfeld (Fairfax, Va.) and Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a bill feeder, a housing for holding a bill that is received from the bill feeder, sensors coupled to the housing, an ultraviolet (UV) lamp that emits ultraviolet light to illuminate a portion of the bill, a UV shutter to control a power of the ultraviolet light on the bill, a memory and a processor. The processor configured to determine...