ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,396, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Online casino virtual players" was invented by Soheil Latifi (Moncton, Canada), Stefan Keilwert (St. Josef, Austria), Sven Aurich (Schwanberg, Austria), David Froy (Lakeville-Westmorland, Canada) and Michael Russ (Graz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to using artificially intelligent bots to represent automated, virtual entities in a virtual casino. According to one embodiment, providing a virtual casino can comprise maintaining a model of virtual casino interactions representing interactions between entities in a gaming environment. The intera...