US Patent Issued to IGT on May 13 for "Game event-based funding for a progressive wagering game" (Nevada, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,067, issued on May 13, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Game event-based funding for a progressive wagering game" was invented by Ben Holsclaw (Sparks, Nev.), Brad Fredella (Henderson, Nev.), Predrag Savic (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Darren Maya (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming device includes a processor circuit and a memory including machine-readable instructions that cause the processor circuit to receive a wager and allocate a first portion of the wager to a first progressive pot. The instructions further cause the processor circuit to determine a game result for the wagering game. The instructions further cause t...