ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,828, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for two-way cash recycler" was invented by Christian Mande (Charlotte, N.C.), Darren Goetz (San Francisco), Frank DiGangi (San Francisco) and Dennis E. Montenegro (Concord, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-way cash recycler system includes a vault structured to store, receive, and dispense transaction media, a first input/output device structured to receive and dispense the transaction media, a second input/output device structured to receive and dispense the transaction media, and a transport system structured to transport ...