ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,602, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ANGEL GROUP Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).
"Card game monitoring system" was invented by Yasushi Shigeta (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The card game monitoring system comprises a game table on which bettors put wagers on betting areas; and a card shooter apparatus has a card reading unit to read and record the number (rank) and suit of the cards; and a control unit to determine a winning hand according to a table game rules based on information of numbers (ranks) and suits of the cards sequentially read by the card reading unit; a monitor video camera system to capture positions of cards...