ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,667, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to JAPAN CASH MACHINE Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Paper sheet transport device and paper sheet handling device" was invented by Hiroyuki Suzuki (Osaka, Japan), Tuan Dung Le (Osaka, Viet Nam) and Van Huong Nguyen (Osaka, Viet Nam).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention enables determination as to whether a banknote 100 is to be discharged even when only the feature quantity of a portion of the banknote is acquired at the time of discharging the banknote in a case in which a transport route length L1 from a reading position 18a of an optical recognition sensor 18 to an inlet/outlet 12 a...