US Patent Issued to Hammond Software on Jan. 20 for "Detecting cheating and changes in playing ability in partial knowledge and trick-taking games" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,018, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Hammond Software Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Detecting cheating and changes in playing ability in partial knowledge and trick-taking games" was invented by Nicolas Hammond (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples herein include systems for detecting cheating and changes in mental performance in card games, including bridge. The system can acquire board data for multiple events, the events including bridge games. For each event, determining performance values for a player based on the board and play data, wherein the performance values may additionally be based in part on timing dat...