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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2013
Giesecke & Devrient America, Inc., Dulles, VA (US);
Giesecke+Devrient Currency Technology America, Inc., Dulles, VA (US);
Abstract
An unused card sorting and recovering apparatus includes a card input device, a card sensing device, a card sorting device, and a card disposing device. The apparatus further includes a plurality of pockets, each of the plurality of pockets configured to hold one or more cards. The apparatus further includes a controller configured to, for each of a plurality of cards, determine an identity of the card, determine whether at least one pocket of the plurality of pockets is missing the card from a complete deck based on the identity of the card, instruct the card sorting device to distribute the card to a pocket of the at least one pocket of the plurality of pockets that is missing the card, or instruct the card sorting device to distribute the card to a holding device. The apparatus further comprises a resetting device configured to reset specific pockets.