ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,779, issued on March 3.
"Card dealing shoe with a pusher" was invented by Artjoms Spiridonovs (Agioi Omologites Nicosia, Cyprus).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a device to hold playing cards in position to allow them to be dealt out one at a time. A dealing shoe comprises a shoe body configured to receive plurality of playing cards, a front panel, through which the playing cards received in the shoe body are dealt out, and a lip extending outside the shoe body in the front of the front panel of the shoe body. The dealing shoe further comprises a pusher arranged within the shoe body. The dealing shoe is...