ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,378, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ANGEL GROUP Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).
"Card show apparatus and table game system" was invented by Yasushi Shigeta (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a card shoe that includes a housing for housing cards and an opening through which the housed cards can be drawn. The system includes a computer to detect whether there is any of the following predefined arrangements: (1) for each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards, the respective rank of the respective card is larger or smaller by one than an immediately preceding one of the cards drawn from the card ho...