ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,023, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SESAMI TECHNOLOGIES S.R.L. (Bollengo, Italy).

"Method and system for storing flexible documents" was invented by Enrico Colecchia (Bollengo, Italy) and Paolo Martinotti (Bollengo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method (1) for storing a series of flexible documents in a system, the system comprising one storing and issuing module, one conveyor belt, configured for supporting and transporting the flexible documents toward the at least one storing and issuing module at known conveying speed vc(t), one sensor group, configured to sense any flexible document B(m) transported on the conveyor belt...