US 12,190,677 B2
System, chip tray, and method
Jason Emeric, Las Vegas, NV (US); Jeffrey Reed, Sunman, IN (US); Gregory Gronau, Las Vegas, NV (US); Yasushi Shigeta, Shiga (JP); Emmanuel Sylvain Gelinotte, Savigny les Beaune (FR); Jonathan Souillot, Saint-Marcel (FR); and Bernard Molina, Las Vegas, NV (US)
Assigned to ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD., Shiga (JP)
Filed by ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD., Shiga (JP)
Filed on Oct. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/382,343.
Application 18/382,343 is a continuation of application No. 17/884,811, filed on Aug. 10, 2022, granted, now 11,915,550.
Application 17/884,811 is a continuation of application No. 17/283,672, granted, now 11,450,173, issued on Sep. 20, 2022, previously published as PCT/US2019/055375, filed on Oct. 9, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/743,451, filed on Oct. 9, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0046740 A1, Feb. 8, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G07F 17/32 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/3225 (2013.01) [G07F 17/322 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A dual chip tray comprising:
a lower tray configured to hold gaming chips with embedded RFID tags;
an upper tray configured to:
hold gaming chips with embedded RFID tags,
be moved between a state in which the upper tray is stacked on top of the lower tray and a state in which an upper surface of the lower tray is open;
an upper RFID antenna configured to read the RFID tags of the gaming chips held in the lower tray;
a lower RFID antenna configured to read the RFID tags of the gaming chips held in the upper tray; and
a gaming table device configured to determine the gaming chips held in the upper tray and the gaming chips held in the lower tray based on results of a reading operation associated with the upper RFID antenna and results of a reading operation associated with the lower RFID antenna,
wherein, while the upper tray is stacked on top of the lower tray, the upper RFID antenna is configured not to read the RFID tags of the gaming chips held in the lower tray and/or the lower RFID antenna is configured not to read the RFID tags of the gaming chips held in the upper tray, and
wherein the gaming table device is configured to determine, separately:
the gaming chips held in the upper tray, and
the gaming chips held in the lower tray.