ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,369, issued on June 2, was assigned to JAPAN CASH MACHINE Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Paper sheet handling device, calculation method of number of paper sheets in paper sheet batch, and program" was invented by Fumihide Nishimura (Osaka, Japan), Kazuya Uemura (Osaka, Japan) and Koji Yoshitake (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a paper sheet handling device that can calculate the number of paper sheets in a paper sheet batch being transported on a transport route without requiring complicated processing. The paper sheet handling device includes a transport unit that can transport a paper sheet bat...