ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,623, issued on May 6, was assigned to LAUREL BANK MACHINES Co. LTD. (Tokyo), LAUREL MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and LAUREL PRECISION MACHINES Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Division card" was invented by Naoya Uenomachi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A division card can be taken in from an insertion port of a paper sheet processing device for processing paper sheets, being arranged overlapping at least one processing target paper sheet to constitute a paper sheet group together with the processing target paper sheet, and enabling identification information to be read by an intake sensor of the paper sheet processing device, i...