US Patent Issued to Evolution Malta on Oct. 21 for "Systems, methods, and media for removing playing cards from a gaming table" (Latvian, Maltese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,974, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Evolution Malta Ltd. (St. Julians, Malta).

"Systems, methods, and media for removing playing cards from a gaming table" was invented by Todd Haushalter (St. Julians, Malta), Alexander Goodman (Riga, Latvia), Raivis Rengelis (Riga, Latvia) and Aleksejs Blinovs (Riga, Latvia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanism (which can include system, methods, and media) for removing a card from a gaming table are provided, the mechanisms comprising: detecting when a playing card is placed on a door on a table surface of a gaming table; and causing the door to automatically open downward when the playing c...