ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,742, issued on July 28, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Smart ATM cassette" was invented by Matej Bludsky (Germantown, Md.), Jeba Angeline George (Wilmington, Del.) and Michael James Kidd (Litchfield, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for a smart automated teller machine cassette. One cassette system includes a housing that defines an interior of the cassette, and that is configured to house a plurality of currency notes, a camera sensor configured to capture at least one image of each note of the plurality of currency notes, and a first module configured to determine a cas...