ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,312, issued on April 7, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Electronic gaming machine display unit with an integrated speaker transducer for forming a directional speaker cone" was invented by Frank Rodriguez (Las Vegas) and Stephen Shaffer Jr. (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are gaming systems, methods, and machines that include a display unit for a sound directed immersive gaming experiences. In some examples, the display unit may include a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen acting as the speaker cone through one or more sound systems. An LCD screen may have one or more speaker transducer...