ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,579, issued on July 8, was assigned to ANGEL GROUP Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).
"Card shooter device and method" was invented by Yasushi Shigeta (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card shoe apparatus including a card housing unit for housing a plurality of cards; an opening in the card housing unit for manually withdrawing the cards one by one from the card housing unit in a card reading direction; a card reading unit that reads information on the cards as the cards are manually withdrawn from the card housing unit in the card reading direction; a control unit that stores rules of a card game and determines the results of the ...