ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,858, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FUJITSU FRONTECH Ltd. (Tokyo) and FUJITSU FRONTECH SYSTEMS Ltd. (Maebashi, Japan).

"Paper sheet handling apparatus" was invented by Shoichi Deguchi (Inagi, Japan), Tomoyuki Tamahashi (Inagi, Japan), Atsushi Ando (Inagi, Japan), Satoshi Hayashi (Inagi, Japan), Shohei Koizumi (Inagi, Japan), Takashi Wada (Inagi, Japan) and Akira Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A paper sheet handling apparatus includes: a first facing section and a second facing section which are arranged so as to face each other in a facing direction with an insertion space interposed therebetween; and a conveyance s...