ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,048, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GLORY LTD. (Himeji, Japan).

"Money handling apparatus and money handling method" was invented by Tsuyoshi Izumida (Himeji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A money handling apparatus includes: a first storage unit and a second storage unit; a transport unit; a recognition unit; and a control unit configured to transport the money in the first storage unit by the transport unit, recognize the money by the recognition unit, transport a part of the money from the first storage unit to the second storage unit based on a result of recognition to store money of predetermined denominations, for ...