ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,581, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Glory Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Medium processing apparatus" was invented by Hirofumi Tougo (Hyogo, Japan), Kazuhiko Takahashi (Hyogo, Japan), Kenta Takahashi (Hyogo, Japan), Takayuki Kuroda (Hyogo, Japan) and Tomohiro Yokoo (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a medium processing apparatus, including: a housing provided with a surface facing a customer operating the medium processing apparatus; and a rolled coin device housed in the housing and configured to process rolled coins formed by bundling a plurality of loose coins. The surface of the housing includes...