ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,747, issued on July 28, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Systems and techniques for providing animated leaderboards" was invented by Alfred Thomas (Ventura, Calif.), Jehoshua Josue (Las Vegas), Scott Burns (Las Vegas) and Larry Joe Pacey (Calabasas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various types of graphical leaderboards for electronic multiplayer gaming events are disclosed. Examples of player-specific graphical leaderboards that may be presented to individual players in the multiplayer gaming event to provide leaderboard information tailored to their own scores are disclosed, as well as player-agnosti...