ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,537, issued on July 22, was assigned to ASAHI SEIKO Co. LTD (Tokyo).
"Card handling apparatus" was invented by Takahito Yamamiya (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to increase a stored amount of cards in a card handling apparatus that discharges cards stored in the card cassettes one by one, the card handling apparatus is provided with two card cassettes. A first card cassette and a second card cassette are arranged along a conveying path for the card, and when all cards stored in the first card cassette is discharged, the card is discharged from the second card cassette. The first card cassette has a gate for al...