ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,113, issued on July 15, was assigned to GLORY LTD. (Himeji, Japan).
"Medium handling apparatus" was invented by Shinsuke Shibata (Himeji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium handling apparatus includes a first memory device that is tamper resistant, a second memory device that stores a plurality of executable instructions, and a processor. The first memory device includes a first memory area that stores pieces of verification information, used for verification of validity of the plurality of executable instructions, as a list which enables a search for particular verification information by version of an executable instruct...