ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,654, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"System and method for utilizing mobile device to provide inputs in a gaming environment" was invented by Yongqiang Jin (Beijing), Mo Fang (Beijing) and Xuan Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system which enables one or more events to be initiated via a gaming establishment device and concluded via one or more inputs received via a webpage accessed by a mobile device."

The patent was filed on Sept. 8, 2021, under Application No. 17/469,345.

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