ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,580, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ANGEL GROUP Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).

"Inspection system" was invented by Yasushi Shigeta (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection system comprises: a placing surface having a plurality of areas for placing a plurality of gaming chips to be inspected one by one; an RFID reading system that reads the RFID tags of the gaming chips placed in each of the plurality of areas on the surface to obtain the type information and identification information for each of the areas; a chip recognition system that recognizes the presence or absence of at least one of the gaming chips placed i...