ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,331, issued on May 27, was assigned to ANGEL GROUP CO LTD. (Shiga, Japan).
"Game table reading system" was invented by Naoya Takine (Shiga, Japan) and Satoru Monji (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The game table reading system comprises reading antennas for each of a plurality of reading areas of a game table, read-restriction antennas for each of the plurality of the reading areas, the read-restriction antennas restricting the RFID tag embedded in a game token placed in the corresponding reading area from being read by the reading antenna corresponding to the other adjacent reading areas, a reading control device that co...