ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,607, issued on Oct. 7.

"Remote playing card game" was invented by Fabian Piorno (Plantation, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of playing a remote playing card game that includes a specialized physical game table communicatively coupled and/or physically coupled to a plurality of electronic communication devices remotely displaced from the game table and dealing physical playing cards on the physical game table, wherein a camera on the physical game table is operably configured to communicate the suit and rank of the dealt playing cards, the physical shuffling of the cards, and the game layout on the game table, to the elec...