ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,350, issued on May 27, was assigned to GLORY LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Medium processing apparatus having a lockable loose coin device door and a lockable banknote device door" was invented by Kazuhiko Takahashi (Hyogo, Japan), Takaaki Imoto (Hyogo, Japan), Hirofumi Tougo (Hyogo, Japan) and Hitoshi Kobayashi (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium processing apparatus, including: a banknote device configured to process a banknote, including a banknote device door arranged at an opening of a safe box and being movable between an open position and a closed position; a banknote device lock configured to switch the banknote dev...