ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,858, issued on Nov. 25.
"Device and method for resolving flipped cards" was invented by Charles M. Curley (Cortland, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact card handling device for use in casinos possesses a card intake portal and two playing card discharge portals which are all accessible by a device operator. An optical recognition sensor cooperates with a microcontroller to interrogate the integrity of each card during an ongoing shuffling operation to discover unexpected cards, including unrecognized cards and flipped cards. Unexpected cards are immediately discharged to a dedicated portal for operator review. In the commo...