Patents by Inventor Wendell Hunsucker

Wendell Hunsucker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11551518
    Abstract: An advantage player identification and tracking system includes card shoes configured to dispense playing cards and output card information of the dispensed playing cards, cameras positioned to capture image data of one or more players playing a card game, and a computing device communicatively coupled to the card shoes and the cameras. The computing device is configured to receive the card information from the card shoes, track, for a plurality of hands of cards dealt, game play and bets laid by the one or more players playing the card game, determine a card count, analyze, utilizing a machine learning model, the game play and the bets laid by the one or more players and card counts associated with the game play and the bets laid, and predict, utilizing the machine learning model, that a player of the one or more players is an advantage player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Akers, Kevin Hillman, Wendell Hunsucker
  • Publication number: 20220068085
    Abstract: An advantage player identification and tracking system includes card shoes configured to dispense playing cards and output card information of the dispensed playing cards, cameras positioned to capture image data of one or more players playing a card game, and a computing device communicatively coupled to the card shoes and the cameras. The computing device is configured to receive the card information from the card shoes, track, for a plurality of hands of cards dealt, game play and bets laid by the one or more players playing the card game, determine a card count, analyze, utilizing a machine learning model, the game play and the bets laid by the one or more players and card counts associated with the game play and the bets laid, and predict, utilizing the machine learning model, that a player of the one or more players is an advantage player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Akers, Kevin Hillman, Wendell Hunsucker