US Patent Issued to IGT on March 17 for "Accessing gaming establishment account funds converted to a ticket voucher as part of cashout transaction" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,863, issued on March 17, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Accessing gaming establishment account funds converted to a ticket voucher as part of cashout transaction" was invented by Erik Petersen (Sparks, Nev.), Jeffery Shepherd (Reno, Nev.) and Kevin Higgins (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that convert an amount of funds maintained in a gaming establishment account to a ticket voucher in association with a cashout input."

The patent was filed on May 22, 2023, under Application No. 18/321,567.

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