ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,629, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to FUJITSU FRONTECH Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Paper sheet storage device and paper sheet handling device" was invented by Mitsutaka Nishida (Inagi, Japan), Masato Ikeda (Inagi, Japan), Katsuo Takahashi (Inagi, Japan) and Yuji Tanaka (Inagi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A paper sheet storage device includes: a storage that stores a paper sheet inclined with respect to a horizontal direction in a storage space narrower than the paper sheet in width; and a guide portion that guides the paper sheet so as to cause the paper sheet to freely fall in the storage space such that all sides of the paper sheet a...