US Patent Issued to IGT on Feb. 3 for "System and methods of providing a less interruptive game experience in a casino environment" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,024, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"System and methods of providing a less interruptive game experience in a casino environment" was invented by Michael Russ (Graz, Austria) and Stefan Keilwert (St. Josef, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a gaming system that determines states of a gaming system and/or communication device of a player and uses the determined state to suppress received communications; during a gaming session between the player and gaming system to avoid interrupting the player."

The patent was filed on June 7, 2023, under Application ...