US Patent Issued on Aug. 25 for "Telematics system and method for monitoring and coordinating management of distributed gaming machines" (California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,659, issued on Aug. 25.

"Telematics system and method for monitoring and coordinating management of distributed gaming machines" was invented by David Meyer (Knoxville, Tenn.) and William Essex Cheney (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-tampering system and/or method are provided for use with a virtual gaming machine network. Various distributed gaming machines reside in respective physical locations and have respective unique identifiers, each machine including: sensors which generate output signals corresponding to input power, current position, and/or current orientation thereof; cellular modems; and resident control...