US Patent Issued to IGT on Aug. 25 for "Transferring line of credit funds and gaming establishment account funds to a gaming device" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,657, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Transferring line of credit funds and gaming establishment account funds to a gaming device" was invented by Jeffery Shepherd (Reno, Nev.) and Kevin Higgins (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that, responsive to a request to transfer an amount of funds to a gaming device, facilitates a first transfer of an amount of funds from a gaming establishment account and/or a second transfer of an amount of funds associated with a line of credit to the gaming device."

The patent was filed on June 27, 2024, under Application No. 18/756,473.

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