The United States Playing Card Company

Lance Merrell

Carol Anne Rouillard

Dylan Stephen Horvath

Scott Bodaly

Venkata Krishnamurty

Mike Liwak

Logan Thomas Taylor

Andriy Nazar

Ken Miller

A card dealing system incorporating playing cards with rank and suit information encoded thereon via micro-dots, and a shoe capable of reading such micro dots as a playing card is drawn from the shoe. A game controller unit determines the positioning of the micro-dots on the playing card, and determines the rank and suit information therefrom. The game controller thereby monitors the progress and status of a card game. The shoe includes a mechanism for increasing the force needed to pull a card from the shoe in certain circumstances. The engagement of this mechanism may be tied to the rules of the game, or may relate to circumstances apart from the rules of the game, such as the detection of a cut card or a virtual cut card.

Intelligent table game system

Growing community of inventors

Union, KY, United States of America

Lance Merrell