US Patent Issued to Generation Z on Oct. 14 for "Card-based electronic gaming systems and techniques for table games" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,275, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Generation Z LLC (Columbus, Minn.).

"Card-based electronic gaming systems and techniques for table games" was invented by Tom W. Bowling Jr. (Los Angeles) and Taro Ito (Columbus, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, an electronic gaming system includes: a plurality of physical playing cards that are dealt by an automated or human dealer; a scanner that is configured to identify each physical playing card of the plurality of physical playing cards as they are dealt; a plurality of player computing devices that are configured to provide individualized gaming interfaces for ...