ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,137, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to LAUREL BANK MACHINES Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and LAUREL PRECISION Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Paper sheet handling apparatus" was invented by Tadaaki Morita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A paper sheet handling apparatus includes an accumulation and storage unit that accumulates and stores paper sheets conveyed by the conveyance unit while aligning the paper sheets, the accumulation and storage unit having an accumulation unit that accumulates the paper sheets so that a first direction which is one of a vertical width direction and a horizontal width direction and a second direction which is the ...