ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,526, issued on Nov. 3.
"Compact reject bin" was invented by Craig Rutherford (Blairgowrie, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bin for storing rejected media items at a self-service terminal such as an automated teller machine has an input channel for receiving a sequential series of media items such as checks or bank notes. Opposing driven rollers receive the sequential series of media items via the input channel and push out each of the sequential series of media items into an output channel. A storage receptacle receives each of the sequential series of media items pushed out by the opposing driven rollers via the output...