ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,645, issued on June 24, was assigned to LAUREL BANK MACHINES Co. LTD. (Tokyo), LAUREL MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and LAUREL PRECISION MACHINES Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Paper sheet processing device" was invented by Hiroyuki Kumagai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is provided with: an identifying portion that reads a plurality of pieces of identification information including the same unique information provided to a division card; and a control portion that determines that the division card is usable when the unique information obtained from each of the plurality of pieces of identification informa...