US Patent Issued on Oct. 20 for "System and method for video game wagering using screen-capture verification and smart-contract escrow settlement" (Puerto Rico Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,424, issued on Oct. 20.

"System and method for video game wagering using screen-capture verification and smart-contract escrow settlement" was invented by John M. Kenny (Dorado, Puerto Rico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-based platform facilitates head-to-head wagering on video game matches by requiring participants to deposit wagered amounts into a smart-contract escrow prior to gameplay. During gameplay, the platform captures screen-share frames from each participant device at predetermined intervals and transmits the frames to a backend processing service. A detector service applies template matching, optical character rec...