ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,885, issued on June 17, was assigned to GLORY LTD. (Himeji, Japan).

"Money handling apparatus and money handling method" was invented by Shuji Onishi (Hyogo, Japan) and Kazuaki Nishimura (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A money handling apparatus capable of appropriately performing operation on handling of money depending on presence or absence of cooperation between the money handling apparatus and an external apparatus. The money handling apparatus includes a transport unit that transports money, an attachment unit that allows a cassette for storing money to be attached and detached, and a control unit that performs pre...