ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,963, issued on April 14, was assigned to GLORY LTD. (Himeji, Japan).
"Cash handling apparatus" was invented by Kisho Yanase (Himeji, Japan), Shuang Gao (Himeji, Japan) and Zi Chen Feng (Himeji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to handle a central bank digital currency, a cash handling apparatus includes: a cash depositing port for depositing cash; a cash recognition circuit that recognizes a kind and authenticity of the cash; a cash storage that stores the cash; a digital cash depositing unit for depositing digital cash being a central bank digital currency for which one piece of data is issued per predetermined unit am...