ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,979, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Controlling a network card game" was invented by Martin S. Lyons (Henderson, Nev.), Ryan Yee (Las Vegas), Michael Vizzo (Las Vegas) and Colin Helsen (Arundel, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a system configured to detect a payout proximity trigger for a progressive jackpot game. The system analyzes, in response to the trigger, shuffle-state image data of a shuffler device and determines a card order of an undealt portion for a deck of cards shuffled by the shuffler device. The system further determines, based on the card order and based o...