US Patent Issued to IGT on June 23 for "Personal tournaments" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,861, issued on June 23, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Personal tournaments" was invented by Jeffery Shepherd (Reno, Nev.), Kevin Higgins (Reno, Nev.) and Donald Dusich (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaming systems and methods that provide a display of a plurality of different personal tournaments, enable a player to select one of the personal tournaments, cause a display and enable the player to play the selected personal tournament, determine if the player achieves or exceeds a standard for the play of the personal tournament, determine any award for the play of the personal tournament based on whether the player ach...