US Patent Issued to IGT on Aug. 25 for "Providing live dealers to remotely located table games" (Austrian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,656, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Providing live dealers to remotely located table games" was invented by Michael Russ (Graz, Austria), David Froy (Lakeville-Westmorland, Canada) and Stefan Keilwert (St. Josef, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Game information for a wagering game is received from a remote gaming table. Live actions by a live dealer for the wagering game are captured by an image capture device. Image information based on the captured live actions are transmitted to the remote gaming table to provide a live holographic image of the dealer at the remote gaming table. An input device receive...