ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,157, issued on April 22, was assigned to ANGEL GROUP Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).

"Inspection system, inspecting device, and gaming chip" was invented by Yasushi Shigeta (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection system of a chip includes a reading device and a determining unit. The reading device is configured to count a number of chips stored in a storage case, the chips associated with a table game and including a chip having a radio tag, read the radio tag while the chips are stored in the storage case, and acquire chip information. The determining unit is configured to compare the chip information of the chips in the ...