US Patent Issued to Cummins-Allison on Oct. 7 for "Coin sorting disc with coin flow management features" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,598, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cummins-Allison Corp. (Mount Prospect, Ill.).

"Coin sorting disc with coin flow management features" was invented by James M. Rasmussen (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coin processing system comprises a rotatable disc including a resilient pad coupled thereto for imparting motion to the plurality of coins, the resilient pad including an outer peripheral edge, and a stationary sorting head. The stationary sorting head includes a lower surface forming a coin path for directing movement of each of the coins, a stripping area of the coin path including at least one stripping surface operabl...