ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,931, issued on April 15, was assigned to CARTAMUNDI SERVICES NV (Turnhout, Belgium).
"Device for production of sets of playing cards" was invented by Marco Dehouwer (Vosselaar, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for production of sets of playing cards is provided, and includes: a printing means for printing randomly ordered playing cards; an identification means to identify one or more defective playing cards, having a feedback unit to instruct the printing means to reprint the defective playing cards; and an evacuation means to evacuate the one or more defective playing cards."
The patent was filed on Sept. 7, 2021, und...