ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,859, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ANGEL GROUP Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).
"Table game system" was invented by Yasushi Shigeta (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A table game system is provided capable of identifying shuffled playing cards used at the time of the occurrence of a problem in a card shoe apparatus, thereby enabling an investigation of the cause thereof or the taking of countermeasures therefor. A card shoe apparatus of the table game system of the present invention includes a barcode reader that reads a barcode provided in a shuffled playing card set, thereby reading a shuffled card ID that uniquely identifi...