ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,751, issued on July 28, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Providing a continuous game session between a real world gaming environment and a shared virtual gaming environment" was invented by David Froy (Lakeville-Westmorland, Canada), Gaurav Jariwala (Halifax, Canada), Carman Misener (Moncton, Canada), Bethany Plimmer (Lower Coverdale, Canada), Jackie Alvarez (Las Vegas), Fayez Idris (Dieppe, Canada), David Small (Moncton, Canada), Anthony Baerlocher (Henderson, Nev.), Todd Grimm (Riverview, Canada) and Karen Van Niekerk (Dieppe, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor circuit and a memory coupled to the p...