US Patent Issued to Elaut on Dec. 9 for "Pusher amusement device with pivoting arm and game piece propulsion feature" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,111, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Elaut N.V. (Sint-Niklaas, Belgium).

"Pusher amusement device with pivoting arm and game piece propulsion feature" was invented by Eric Verstraeten (Sint Niklaas, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pusher-type amusement machine that includes a motorized coin track assembly for the introduction of coins that has an track end that sweeps across a playfield and includes a base, a coin hopper for collection and ejecting coins and a track that extends from the coin hopper to a track end opening and a control switch to activate the hopper to push coins through the track so that they are ejected fr...