ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,372, issued on March 18, was assigned to NIDEC SANKYO Corp. (Nagano, Japan) and NIDEC SANKYO (ZHEJIANG) Corp. (Zhejiang Province, China).

"Card reader part" was invented by Haiqin Zhou (Zhejiang Province, China) and Ryo Uchiyama (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a card reader part. The card reader part has a shell inside which a card carrying passage for carrying a card in a first direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of the card and a carrying mechanism are disposed, the card carrying passage has an opening provided at an end face of the shell on one side in the first direction where a bezel with ...