ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,287, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Virtual reality motion sports wagering" was invented by Dwayne Nelson (Las Vegas) and Kevin Remus (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a communication interface, a processing circuit, and a memory coupled to the processing circuit. The memory includes machine readable instructions that, when executed by the processing circuit, cause the processing circuit to receive participant motion data and event data that corresponds to a defined occurrence in a sporting event that is predicted to happen during the sporting event. The processing circuit is further caus...