US Patent Issued to IGT on Feb. 10 for "Shared immersion features among real-world players in a shared virtual gaming environment" (Canadian, Austrian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,270, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Shared immersion features among real-world players in a shared virtual gaming environment" was invented by David Froy (Lakeville-Westmorland, Canada), Michael Russ (Styria, Austria), Fayez Idris (Dieppe, Canada), Gaurav Jariwala (Halifax, Canada), Anthony Baerlocher (Henderson, Nev.), Karen Van Niekerk (Dieppe, Canada), Bethany Plimmer (Lower Coverdale, Canada), David Small (Moncton, Canada) and Todd Grimm (Riverview, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor circuit of a wearable gaming device receives display data corresponding to a real-time environmental model of a...