ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,459, issued on June 10, was assigned to ANGEL GROUP Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).

"Management system" was invented by Yasushi Shigeta (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management system includes a card distributing device that determines a win/loss result of a game using substitute gaming chips on a game table, a dealer chip determining device that specifies type and the number of substitute gaming chips held in a substitute gaming chip tray, a measuring device that measures position, type, and the number of substitute gaming chips on the game table, and a management control device that has a function of transmitting a signal...