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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2009
Applicants:
Richard Soltys, Newcastle, WA (US);
Richard Huizinga, Newcastle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Richard Soltys, Newcastle, WA (US);
Richard Huizinga, Newcastle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Bally Gaming, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B 71/00 (2006.01); A63F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for automating a card game includes wirelessly interrogating each of a plurality of playing cards using radio frequency transmissions. For at least some of the playing cards, determining a rank of the playing card is based on the wireless interrogation using a mapping stored on a computer-readable medium that uniquely identifies playing cards based on a random distribution of conductive material carried by each of the playing cards.