ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,046, issued on June 17, was assigned to ANGEL GROUP Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).
"Management system of gaming chips and storage box" was invented by Yasushi Shigeta (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that manages a package of shuffled playing cards and gaming chips includes a storage box and a control apparatus. The storage box is provided in association with a game table and stores a plurality of shuffled playing cards and a plurality of chip cases and also includes a card reader that reads playing card ID codes of the shuffled playing cards and a chip reader that reads case ID codes of the chip cases. The control app...