ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,064, issued on May 13, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Systems and methods for collusion detection" was invented by Martin S. Lyons (Henderson, Nev.), Ryan Yee (Las Vegas), Michael Vizzo (Las Vegas), Colin Helsen (Arundel, Australia) and Robert McPeak (Mount Vernon, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a system comprises a processor configured to execute instructions that cause operations to detect, using sensors of one or more card-handling devices ("card-handling device(s)") in a network, one or more anomalies ("anomaly (ies)") on one or more cards ("card(s)") used du...