ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,756, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Diebold Nixdorf Inc. (North Canton, Ohio).

"Stripper assembly" was invented by William Daniel Beskitt (Canton, Ohio) and Sean Haney (North Canton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stripper assembly can include a feed wheel, a stripping tire, a drag clutch, and first and second stripping elements. The feed wheel and stripping tire can be mounted for rotation in clockwise (CW) and counter-clockwise (CCW) directions and can contact one another to define a nip through which papers are directed. The drag clutch can be interposed between the stripping tire and the shaft it is mounted upon. The fir...