ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,417, issued on May 13, was assigned to Monnaie Royale Canadienne/Royal Canadian Mint (Ottawa).
"Multi-component coin assembly system and method" was invented by Bradley Everton (Winnipeg, Canada), Xianyao Li (Ottawa), Kewei Qian (Winnipeg, Canada), Trevor Scott Sawatzky (Winnipeg, Canada) and Patrick Roland Lessard (Winnipeg, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for assembly of coin components. Two or more coin components are received in an assembly station having at least two assembling members. The assembling members may be configured to form a chamber comprising the cavities and at least one assem...