ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,309, issued on March 3, was assigned to ANGEL GROUP Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).
"Game token management system" was invented by Yasushi Shigeta (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of the table game management system is configured to be able to recognize that a bet chip bet by a winning player and a payout chip paid to the winning player are transferred outside a chip placement area, and associate, in a database, ID information of the payout chip with ID information of the bet chip transferred outside the chip placement area at the same timing as the payout chip, and includes a function to associate, in the database,...