ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,649, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GLORY LTD. (Himeji, Japan).
"Sheet handling apparatus and sheet handling method" was invented by Yang Chen (Hygo, Japan), Kazuhiro Doi (Hygo, Japan) and Satoru Kobayashi (Hygo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet handling apparatus comprises a transport path for transporting sheets, each sheet including individually assigned identification information; a storage that receives and stores the sheets; a feeder that feeds out the sheets stored in the storage to the transport path; and control circuitry configured to: store the identification information of the sheets in a memory; control the...