ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,254, issued on May 27, was assigned to ANGEL GROUP Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).

"Shuffled playing card and method of manufacturing playing card" was invented by Yasushi Shigeta (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a shuffled playing card, wherein a suit and a rank are printed on one surface of a card base sheet, and a back pattern is printed on another surface, different sheet IDs for one card base sheet or each of a plurality of card base sheets are printed on the card base sheet, one deck or a plurality of decks are formed by individual cards cut by a cutting machine from the card base sheet, the one deck or t...