US Patent Issued to Cummins-Allison on June 17 for "Coin pad for coin processing system" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,886, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cummins-Allison Corp. (Mount Prospect, Ill.).

"Coin pad for coin processing system" was invented by Douglas U. Mennie (Barrington, Ill.), John R. Blake (St. Charles, Ill.), Ricky Newsom (Bolingbrook, Ill.), James M. Rasmussen (Chicago), Kevin M. Carrara (Des Plaines, Ill.) and Glenn S. Gordon (Cameron Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resilient coin sorting pad for imparting motion to a plurality of coins is provided, the resilient coin sorting pad designed to be coupled to a rotatable disc of a coin sorter, the resilient coin sorting pad being generally circular and having an outer...