ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,456, issued on June 10, was assigned to Generation Z LLC (Columbus, Minn.).

"Card-based electronic gaming system for continuous table game progression" was invented by Stephen Deckoff (St. John, Virgin Islands) and Tom W. Bowling (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is an electronic gaming system using common physical cards having a scanner that identifies cards dealt by a dealer, a gaming table where the cards are dealt and scanned, player computing equipment that provide individualized gaming interfaces for players, and a gaming computing system connected to the scanner and player computing equipment that, based on...