US 12,272,208 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 Jan. 16, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/413,307.
Application 18/413,307 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 2024/0153338 A1, May 9, 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)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A double-decker chip tray comprising:
at least one RFID antenna configured to read two types of gaming chips incorporating RFID tags and having different shapes and sizes;
an upper chip tray configured to accommodate the gaming chips; and
a lower chip tray configured to accommodate the gaming chips,
wherein:
the two types of gaming chips include a circular gaming chip and a rectangular plaque,
each gaming chip incorporates an RFID tag storing a denomination of the gaming chip,
the upper chip tray has at least one first gaming chip storage row corresponding to the circular gaming chip for accommodating the circular gaming chip and at least one second gaming chip storage row corresponding to the rectangular plaque for accommodating the rectangular plaque, and
the at least one RFID antenna is configured to read each of the RFID tags of the circular gaming chips and the rectangular plaques, which are the two types of gaming chips accommodated in the double-decker chip tray.