ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,394, issued on March 4.
"System and method for an arcade game machine" was invented by Tan Chee Wooi (Markham, Canada) and Huang Zehang (Guangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arcade game system, comprising a physical see-through game box, an external game control panel, an internal color game display, a hopper for ball dropping coupled with a hopper sensor for detecting said ball dropping, a flat tray, a sweeper, a ball funnel, an internal ball purveyor, a prize pickup bin, a microprocessor, a graphics processing unit (GPU), a memory component, a circuit board, an audio output device, a gameplay, and a prize package. The...