ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,861, issued on March 17, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Methods of air travel casino and lottery gaming" was invented by Patrick Danielson (Las Vegas), Dwayne Nelson (Las Vegas), Kevin Higgins (Reno, Nev.) and Jason Ingles (North Las Vegas, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of air travel using a wagering game are provided. Operations include determining proposed route of an aircraft and identifying multiple geographical zones that include the proposed route of the aircraft and that each include different sets of jurisdictional policies corresponding to wagering games. Operations may include providing jurisdi...