ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,628, issued on May 6.
"System and method for managing a casino-style battleships game" was invented by Eric Smith (Edmonton, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A System and method for managing a game of casino battleships comprising a plurality of game grids, a plurality of game tokens and a plurality of game cards. Each game grid has a plurality of predefined game positions upon which to place the game tokens, each position has a unique identifier code corresponding to a unique identifier code of game card. The apparatus has sensors for detecting placement of tokens and a scanner for scanning the game cards. The apparatus has at ...