ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,838, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Non-scripted award opportunities" was invented by Todd Grimm (Riverview, Canada) and Sylvie Roussel (Moncton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that provide a non-scripted award opportunity responsive to an occurrence of an award triggering event."

The patent was filed on Nov. 6, 2023, under Application No. 18/502,865.

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