US Patent Issued to Shuffle Master on Dec. 30 for "Card-handling devices with defect detection and related methods" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,351, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Shuffle Master GmbH & Co KG (Vienna).

"Card-handling devices with defect detection and related methods" was invented by Peter Krenn (Neufeld, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Card-handling devices may include an input area sized and shaped to receive cards and an output area for outputting at least some of the cards. A defect detection system may be located along a card path downstream from the input area. The defect detection system may include an emitter positioned and oriented to direct radiation toward a major surface of a card as the card moves along the card path. A detector may be ...