US Patent Issued to Smart Industries on March 31 for "Arcade game with RFID reader" (Iowa, Tennessee, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,132, issued on March 31, was assigned to Smart Industries Corp. (Des Moines, Iowa).

"Arcade game with RFID reader" was invented by Jeffrey T. Smart (Altoona, Iowa), Jeremy Wade (Bradenton, Fla.), Loren Ostema (Bradenton, Fla.) and Clarence Wygal Mabe (Gray, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crane-style arcade game has an enclosed prize chamber wherein the prizes comprise RFID tags with assigned point values. an RFID reader reads the RFID tag on a captured prize as the captured prize is moved past the RFID reader. A recording device is connected to the RFID reader to record the assigned point values of the RFID tags of captured ...