ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,655, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Location based accounting of streaming activities in a game streaming environment" was invented by Dwayne R. Nelson (Las Vegas) and Kevin Higgins (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that utilize an attribute of a client device interacting with a live streaming platform in the determination of how to account for the activities occurring at the client device."

The patent was filed on Feb. 23, 2023, under Application No. 18/113,428.

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