ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,444, issued on April 29, was assigned to ANGEL GROUP Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).
"Casino system, casino item, and method of providing casino items" was invented by Yasushi Shigeta (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A casino system in a casino that uses a gaming chip with an RFID tag that stores identification information is installed in the casino and has an activation reader/writer that reads the identification information from the RFID tag of the gaming chip, and a registration device that determines the authenticity of the gaming chip and registers the gaming chip that is determined to be authentic as usable supplies. The re...