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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7117173 | System and method for providing financial services to children and teenagers A system and method of providing financial services to children provides a child-friendly user-interface that includes an age-appropriate integrated financial services account statement having links to multimedia files providing information on or related to specific... | 10/03/2006 |
| RE38663 | Method for semi-continuous currency processing using separator cards A method of semi-continuous currency processing using separator cards to separate currency stacks in a batch of currency fed into a currency processing machine. This currency processing method uses separator cards that facilitate the continuous processing of individ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6731785 | Currency handling system employing an infrared authenticating system A document handling system is configured for detecting counterfeit bills using infrared light. The document handling system comprises an infrared light source, a sensor that is adapted to produce an output signal in response to infrared light illumination of a docum... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6224381 | Educating special needs children about money An apparatus for educating special needs children about money includes a easel having a display page having ferromagnetic properties arranged to display the display page to a child and specimen money and a plurality of graphics cards having magnetic prope... | 05/01/2001 |
| 5917930 | Method for semi-continuous currency processing using separator cards A method of semi-continuous currency processing using separator cards to separate currency stacks in a batch of currency fed into a currency processing machine. This currency processing method uses separator cards that facilitate the continuous processing... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5347473 | Coin counting calculator An electronic calculator allows a user to quickly add up change. The user simply pushes one of the coin switches clearly marked to represent a particular coin denomination in order to add up the change. Each time a coin switch is activated, an accumulated... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5055834 | Adjustable bill-damage discrimination system An adjustable bill-discrimination system which detects at least one of physical quantities of a bill and compares the detected data of the bill with a predetermined discrimination level to determine whether a bill is damaged or not, wherein a detection me... | 10/08/1991 |
| 4959017 | Electronic learning device for teaching how to handle money An electronic learning device (10) for teaching how to handle money is provided. A student provides input to the device, in a preferred embodiment, by a plurality of keys (40) which select the learning activity and its difficulty level. In certain activit... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4776797 | Coin cue device and method for aiding the handicapped A coin cue device having a pliable support, a circular backing secured to the pliable support and elevated pictorial coin indicia integrally bound to the circular backing. A circular ridge is secured to the pliable support and to the circular backing, and... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4775321 | System for teaching money values A system for arranging money values into a three-tiered arrangement, including a "Basic Money Lab", "Intermediate Money Lab", and "Advanced Money Lab"; each of the tiers including a plurality of envelopes arranged in ascending order of money values, each ... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4752227 | Educational game and method of playing the game An educational game including a game board. The game board is a sheet of material having top and bottom surfaces. Each of the surfaces has a plurality of circular recesses therein. The recesses are of a number of predetermined diameters slightly larger th... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4571189 | System for teaching coin relationships A manipulative system is disclosed which is adapted to teach basic relationships between coins and bills of different denominations and basic change-making skills to students with limited learning capacity. A board overlayed with the images of one hundred... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4521197 | Money calculation game A game apparatus for challenging the mental dexterity of two or more players and teaching children readily how to recognize, add and remember monetary sums is disclosed, which uses three cubical members, two main members, one of which has indicia on its f... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4427389 | Toy coin changer A toy of an educational nature including a plurality of receptacles in a supporting frame respectively for toy coins of different sizes and arranged to be received only in one of the receptacles as controlled by the size of the entrance opening for that p... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4354682 | Method and apparatus for enhancing the twelve coin balancing puzzle A total of thirteen identically appearing coins is provided in lieu of the usual twelve coins. Eleven of these thirteen coins are made identical in weight to result in eleven identical coins and two remaining coins. One of the remaining coins is heavier t... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4331427 | Educational time teaching device An educational time teaching device especially useful for teaching children to tell time is disclosed. A base member has a plurality of coins mounted on it, the coins defining a minute scale from five to sixty in five minute intervals thereon, based upon ... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4195423 | Pop-up cash register A toy cash register device which closely simulates the operation of an actual real life cash register having a plurality of program plates depicting thereon various items of merchandise and monetary values therefore with each plate having a total value fo... | 04/01/1980 |
