US Patent Issued to Northernvue on Aug. 4 for "Game monitoring device" (Illinois, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,283, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Northernvue Corp. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Game monitoring device" was invented by Minglun Qian (Northbrook, Ill.) and Lei Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-contained game monitoring device captures images of a game table and identifies objects relevant to the game and identifies values associated with objects. During the course of the game, the device can detect a violation of the players' bets according to pre-configured game rules. At the end of each game, the device can determine the outcome of the game (e.g., the win/lose/push on each bet) and can determine whether the ...