ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,571, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to FUJITSU FRONTECH Ltd. (Tokyo) and FUITSU FRONTECH SYSTEMS Ltd. (Maebashi, Japan).

"Paper sheet handling apparatus" was invented by Naoya Iida (Inagi, Japan), Tomohiro Yamada (Inagi, Japan), Hiroshi Miyazaki (Inagi, Japan), Hisao Izumi (Inagi, Japan) and Nobuhiko Ishii (Inagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A paper sheet handling apparatus includes a movable unit that changes a size of a taking-out space by moving in a direction of approaching a paper sheet discharged to the taking-out space and a direction of retreating the paper sheet, in which the movable unit includes a movable unit ma...