ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,954, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Chung-Hao Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Smart control module for coin-operated device" was invented by Chung-Hao Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan) and San-Feng Huang (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart control module for a coin-operated device includes a control board disposed with a processing unit, a back-end port, and a communication unit that are electrically connected to the processing unit. A front-end port is disposed on the control board and is adapted to receive a coin insertion signal outputted by a coin acceptor. The back-end port outputs the coin insertion signal in a bypassing way. Wh...