ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,126, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Automatic on-board controllers for electronic gaming devices" was invented by Jeremiah O'Hara (Las Vegas), Anthony Patton (Las Vegas) and Samarth Raman (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure concerns automatic distributed on-board controllers (OBCs) for electronic gaming machines (EGMs). In particular, various schemes to host a distributed OBC across multiple peer machines are disclosed herein. Traditionally, a "progressive" controller for a set of EGMs comprises a set of services that runs on dedicated servers/hardware and ...