US Patent Issued to IGT on March 17 for "Jackpot and win celebration in a virtual reality and augmented reality environment" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,862, issued on March 17, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Jackpot and win celebration in a virtual reality and augmented reality environment" was invented by Kevin Higgins (Reno, Nev.) and Dwayne Nelson (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to increasing involvement of and interaction between participants in a virtual reality or augmented reality environment. According to one embodiment, a win event can be detected within an electronic game being played within a virtual casino. In response to detecting the win event, an indication of the detected win event can be provided to a ...