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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Fortiss, Llc, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Joshua K. Hoyt, Portland, OR (US);
Forrest S. Seitz, Beaverton, OR (US);
Eduard Vaynberg, Portland, OR (US);
Fortis, LLC, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A preferred embodiment of a Pai Gow gaming table () is equipped with a system () that implements real-time tracking of gaming tiles () to mitigate risk of dealer or player cheating behavior during game play. Each gaming tile has a machine-readable tile identifying tag. The gaming table has a playing surface () that includes a pre-assigned woodpile position () and multiple pre-assigned player positions (). Multiple woodpile position tile tag identification readers () configured to read the tile identifying tags are located in the pre-assigned woodpile position. Multiple player position tile tag identification readers () operatively associated with different ones of the pre-assigned player positions and configured to read the tile identifying tags are located in associated ones of the pre-assigned player positions. A controller () operatively associated with the tile tag identification readers performs during game play real-time tracking of movement of the gaming tiles.