ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,682, issued on June 3, was assigned to ANGEL GROUP Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).
"Trading card package and manufacturing method for same" was invented by Yasushi Shigeta (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a trading card in which a trading card package and content of the trading card package are linked and the content can be specified, and an illegal act can be found. A manufacturing method for a trading card package includes a step of grouping trading cards on which rareness degree information is printed and a step of packaging the grouped trading cards. Trading card IDs are imparted to the trading cards. In the group...