ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,395, issued on March 4, was assigned to Hyosung TNS Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Medium handling apparatus and medium handling method" was invented by Jun Young Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jong Seong Park (Anyang-si, South Korea) and Hyun Soo Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a medium handling apparatus and method for, by using a temporary storage unit, performing a tallying task in an automated teller machine. The medium handling apparatus includes a deposit/withdrawal unit configured to separate each individual medium and accumulate the medium, a discrimination unit configured to discriminat...