ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,367, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Systems and methods for overlaying game information" was invented by Stephen Meyer (Spring Hill, Tenn.), Christopher Tisdale (Franklin, Tenn.) and Cheston Williams (Franklin, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thin gaming device is provided. The thin gaming device comprises a display, at least one storage medium, an overlay server, and a rendered game overlay module. The overlay server is configured to parse one or more configuration files stored in the at least one storage medium and generate, based on the one or more configuration files, overla...