ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,203, issued on March 11, was assigned to HYOSUNG TNS INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cash dispenser unit and automatic recovery method of the same" was invented by Byung Man Ahn (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Ji Youn Cho (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Jin Jung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a cash dispenser unit (CDU) and an automatic recovery method of the same. The CDU includes a storage for storing bills, a withdrawal part for externally discharging bills withdrawn from the storage, a retrieval part for retrieving bills remaining on a bill conveyance path between the storage and the withdrawal part...