US Patent Issued to Cartamundi Services on July 21 for "Device for providing sets of cards" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,922, issued on July 21, was assigned to Cartamundi Services NV (Turnhout, Belgium).

"Device for providing sets of cards" was invented by Steven Karel Maria Nietvelt (Turnhout, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for providing sets of cards having repurposed cards includes at least a first card handling means comprising a card supply means and a plurality of card storage means. The card handling means includes at least one card grouping means adapted to merge cards from different series of the plurality of series of randomly ordered cards, into a group of cards. A control means is adapted to identify each card of the plura...