ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,330, issued on May 27, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Chip tracking system" was invented by Suhas Rangaswamy (Karnataka, India), Prateek Kumar Baishkhiyar (Bengaluru, India) and Yogendrasinh Rajput (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for a chip tracking system. For example, an apparatus comprises a chip tray and a tracking controller. The chip tray has a plurality of light sensors positioned inside a column. In some instances, the tracking controller is configured to perform operations that cause the apparatus to detect a level of ambient light at each of the plurality of light senso...